I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

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

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When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

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You can have results or excuses. Not both.

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

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The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

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Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

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You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

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

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

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

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For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That 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.

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The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

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

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There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

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The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

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With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

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Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

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Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

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Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

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The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

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