I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

I always go heavy and I always go to failure.

You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.

The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.

I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.

I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.

Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.

To stand a storm and get blown away by her whisper.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat!

I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.