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

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.

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.

Life is full of great opportunities.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

Young. Old. Just Words.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.