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

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.

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.

And who is to say the truth can’t be a miracle?

If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

All things proclaim the existence of God.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Never stop wanting for your magic

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.