Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.