When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Posing is a performing art.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

. I suppose we could ask the same question of Jesus. God sent Him to be the Messiah of Israel and King of Israel; why did He fail the first time around and get crucified?"

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.