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Some ladies like muscle.
People in Colorado are resilient.
I despised basketball for a long time.
Get over it people, I worked my ass off.
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
To keep winning, I have to constantly outdo myself.
You can't be around people who appease you all the time.
The money will go but the trophies will always be there.
Cup stacking on an ESPN highlight? That's pretty messed up.
We have a great tradition of bodybuilding in the United States.
The body is dynamic. You can eat something and get bloated in minutes.
I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?
All the normal lifts that bodybuilders do, we didn't do them in basketball.
As Mr. Olympia, I have to go above and beyond. It's more than just showing muscle.
When you see me at the show, I'm smiling because I want you to know I can do this all day.
This sport has given me so much. It has taught me to be strong emotionally and physically.
Since I first signed with AMI's Weider Publications in 2005, everything has turned to gold.
I would probably lose my mind if I wasn't busy. There's only so many video games I can play.
We have to know how to eat right, train right, and take the right over-the-counter supplements.
Dropsets overload the muscle with shorter rest periods and increasing volume, which you need to grow.
Front squats have really helped my quad development, especially when I was preparing for the Ironman.
I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious.
If you've noticed that dumbbells work better than barbells for you on the bench press, then why change that?
If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.
It's not that I don't want big triceps, but the truth is, I've never had much difficulty adding mass to them.
I've done, on video, 150-pound dumbbells in each hand -I think it was, like, twenty two reps - on an incline.
We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.
I believe that if you're able to eat as much as a bodybuilder is supposed to, you're probably not going to overtrain.
I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.
If it was easy everyone would be a champion, so you've got to decide if you're that person that's going to be a champion.
I began bodybuilding shortly after I watched a couple friends compete at a state show and thought it would be cool to try.
There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others
When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.
I received a lot of criticism early in my career, but people didn't realize that I'd only been training for three years when I turned pro.
Actually to be a champion your goal is to be a little bit better each day, making sure that every day is an opportunity to be at your best.
When I started out in the industry, I turned to magazines like 'Flex' and 'Muscle & Fitness' - the people on their covers were my inspiration.
I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.
I want people to realize bodybuilders are athletes. We have a very meticulous philosophy on how we are able to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously.
When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.
Most people don't do front squats because they're uncomfortable, and there are easier alternatives, but to really add size to the quads, they're a must.
Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!
There were actually a couple of times I fell asleep at the gym on accident after a workout, but it was still late enough, so I went home and caught some sleep.
My goal every year is to be bigger and better than I was the year before. The competition just keeps getting better, and the pressure just gets hotter. Nothing gets easier.
There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.
I believe you need to take enough rest to lift heavy weights, but if it takes you 5-10 minutes to rest and get psyched up for a big lift, I don't know if that's going to be good.
The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver.
You can give me credit on a skilled sport - golf, basketball - but when it comes to someone's appearance - how often do guys compliment another man on anything? They find it feminine.
I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.
I think I was one of those kids that, at the age of 13, start filling out a little bit: I was the kid that had the chest, the arms, the calves, especially, with these big legs like an adult.
Every so often, I'll look at myself in the mirror and go, 'You're a bad mother,' you know? Like, 'You're a bad dude, man, and you're gonna show the world who you are when the time is right.'