It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.

I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.

The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it's my hobby as well as my job.

Recovery is not a gift from clinicians, but the responsibility of us all. We must become confident in our own ability to change our lives, we must give up being reliant on others doing everything for us. We must have the confidence to give up being ill so that we can start being recovered.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

Your body produces a lot less testosterone each and every single year no matter who you are. We are all human, nobody is super human.

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.