In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be

The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers.

Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?

You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.

If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be

Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.

The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!

Just do it! let others try it.

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

The reward is in the doing of it.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

I remember making up songs in my head.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.