Some good stuff from The Austrian Oak:
“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”
“I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.”
“It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.”
“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.”
“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”
“When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.”
... and we all thought Arnold only said "...Ah'll be baaack."