Bodybuilder Quotes

“One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.”

“You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.”

“A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.”

“I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.”

“I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.”

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

“We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.”

“There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority i just use it as a conversation piece. like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd street would have a natural conversation piece. then when they get to talking to me they see i am not mean but gentle to them and thats all they want to know”

“Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?”

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

“The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.”

“The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.”

“To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don't think you can do the work - the five or six hours of working out a day - if you don't have a clear goal or know why you're doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.”

“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”

“If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.”

“I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant... I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - working for the common people out there and being a servant, a public servant, and I have seen this.”

“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.”

“You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.”

“I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.”

“Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.”

“The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.”

“As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.”

“Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.”

“I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.”

“One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.”