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Not Every Legend Is A Myth, Some Are Flesh And Blood. Some Legends Walk Among Us, But They Aren’t Born, They’re Built. Legends Are Made From Iron & Sweat, Mind And Muscle, Blood And Vision And Victory. Legends Are Champions, They Grow, They Win, They Conquer. There’s A Legend Behind Every Legacy, There’s A Blueprint Behind Every Legend.

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Not Every Legend Is

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Not Every Legend Is A Myth, Some Are Flesh And Blood. Some Legends Walk Among Us, But They Aren’t Born, They’re Built. Legends Are Made From Iron & Sweat, Mind And Muscle, Blood And Vision And Victory. Legends Are Champions, They Grow, They Win, They Conquer. There’s A Legend Behind Every Legacy, There’s A Blueprint Behind Every Legend.

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I Think That Every Job That You Can Save Is Important. Every Job That You Can Create Is Very Important And It Should Not Be The Number One Reason Why We Invest In Infrastructure To Create Jobs.

I Had A Clear Vision Of Myself Winning The Mr. Universe Contest. It Was A Very Spiritual Thing, In A Way, Because I Had Such Faith In The Route, The Path, That There Was Never A Question In My Mind That I Would Make It.

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Within Five Years, He Had Learned English And Become The Greatest Bodybuilder In The World.

Success In Life

What We Face May Look Insurmountable. But I Learned Something From All Those Years Of Training And Competing. I Learned Something From All Those Sets And Reps When I Didn't Think I Could Lift Another Ounce Of Weight. What I Learned Is That We Are Always Stronger Than We Know.

I Think We Can Save A Lot Of Money If We Do Smart Growth, Where We Build The Homes And All Of This Closer Into Towns.

Politically There Were Failures. And Also On The Personal Level, There Were Tremendous Failures.

It's Not What You Get Out Of Life That Counts. Break Your Mirrors! In Our Society That Is So Self-absorbed, Begin To Look Less At Yourself And More At Each Other. You'll Get More Satisfaction From Having Improved Your Neighborhood, Your Town, Your State, Your Country, And Your Fellow Human Beings Than You'll Ever Get From Your Muscles, Your Figure, Your Automobile, Your House, Or Your Credit Rating.

The Wolf On The Hill Is Not As Hungry As The Wolf Climbing The Hill.

My Wife (maria) Is The Best Reason To Come Home.

In Acting Class, You Talked Always About Keeping It Real And Don't Act... Connect With The People And Connect With The Partner That You're Acting With. The Same Is Also True In Politics.

In This Country, It Doesn't Make Any Difference Where You Were Born. It Doesn't Make Any Difference Who Your Parents Were. It Doesn't Make Any Difference If, Like Me, You Couldn't Even Speak English Until You Were In Your Twenties.

I Cannot - Nor Will Not - Be Ordinary. I Have To Keep Training And Seeking And Growing. I Have To Stay Hungry. It Is My Will And So Has Become My Nature.

Never Follow The Crowd. Go Where It's Empty.

People Who Say "it Is Impossible", Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Trying To Make It Possible.

When You’re Out There Partying, Horsing Around, Someone Out There At The Same Time Is Working Hard. Someone Is Getting Smarter And Someone Is Winning. Just Remember That.

We Had The Berlin Wall; We Had Walls Everywhere. But We Always Looked At The Wall As Kind Of Like The Outside Of The Wall Is The Enemy. Are We Looking At Mexico As The Enemy? No, It's Not. These Are Our Trading Partners.

I Remember One Guy, Reg Park, A British Bodybuilder, Who Entered Mr Universe When He Was Very Young. But He Won It And Continued To Win It A Second And Third Time. So, He Was My Idol. I Read Everything About Reg Park And Followed His Footsteps And Trained Like Him. I Said If He Could Make It, I Could Make It. It Was A Blueprint, Basically, For How To Get There, To Win The Championships.

You Cannot Get Tired If You're Interested In What You Do. That's The Key Thing.

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I Have A Private Plane. But I Fly Commercial When I Go To Environmental Conferences.

Everything That I've Accomplished In Life Was Because Of America And Because Of California, So I Should Take Seven Years Out Of My Life To Be A Public Servant And To Serve The People Of California Regardless Of The Lack Of Pay.

You Can Scream At Me, Call Me For A Shoot At Midnight, Keep Me Waiting For Hours - As Long As What Ends Up On The Screen Is Perfect.

Self-confidence Is Something Caught And Not Taught. And, Risk-running And Chance-taking Are The Only Ways To Catch It.

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The Mind Is Incredible. Once You've Gained Mastery Over It, Channelling Its Powers Positively, For Your Purpose You Can Do Anything.

I Think That One-liners Are Very Important And Sometimes You Don't Even Know When You're Making The Movie That It's Going To Be A Great Line. I Remember When We Did 'the Terminator' And I Came To The Line "i'll Be Back" I Had No Idea That It Was Going To Be An Important Line.

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.

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Pain Makes Me Grow. Growing Is What I Want. Therefore, For Me Pain Is Pleasure.

If They Don't Have The Guts To Come Up Here In Front Of You And Say, 'i Don't Want To Represent You, I Want To Represent Those Special Interests, The Unions, The Trial Lawyers ... If They Don't Have The Guts, I Call Them Girlie Men.

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I've Heard All My Life That 'this Is Impossible, You Can't Make' It And 'you're Going To Fail' But I Didn't Listen To Them And I Made It.

I Comfortably Can Say That I Am A Republican And I Always Will Be A Republican Because The Republican Party Is A Big Tent And There Was Not Always Things That I Agreed With Or They Didn't Agree With Me Many Times. But The Fact Of The Matter Is That's The Philosophy, And Everything That I've Heard Is Exactly The Same.

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Self Confidence

I Have To Say That The Judges And Our Judiciary System Makes Better Decisions Than The Politicians.

I Do The Same Exercises I Did 50 Years Ago And They Still Work. I Eat The Same Food I Ate 50 Years Ago And It Still Works.

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What Drove Me To Become The World's Greatest Bodybuilder Is No Different From What Drives Other Athletes To Become Great Tennis Players Or Boxers Or Jockeys.

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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Bodybuilders Party A Lot, And Once, In Gold’s - The Gym In Venice, California, Where All The Top Guys Train - There Was A Black Girl Who Came Out Naked. Everybody Jumped On Her And Took Her Upstairs, Where We All Got Together.

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People Should Make Up Their Own Mind About What They Think Of Me.

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Don't Be Afraid Of Making Decisions.

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You Go Back To The Gym And You Just Do It Again And Again Until You Get It Right.

Again And Again

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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.

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There Is Nothing Like Chess To Keep The Brain Smart, And Give It A Workout.

Those Public Employee Union Bosses Think They Already Control The Legislators, They Already Control Everyone Up There In Sacramento, And Now, Because They Have The Money, They Want To Control All Of You, .. They Want To Raise Your Taxes. It's All Going In That Direction -- Raising Your Taxes. But I'm Here As Your Warrior, Remember That. I Want To Protect You.

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I Can Multitask Very Well. But I Know Exactly When To Block Off Anything Coming In From The Outside And Just Stay Focused On The Film.

Climate Change: I Say The Debate Is Over. We Know The Science, We See The Threat And We Know That The Time For Action Is Now

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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That Is Not A Drug. It's A Leaf.

It's As Satisfying To Me As, Uh, Coming Is, You Know? As, Ah, Having Sex With A Woman And Coming.

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.

The Message I Am Trying To Get Across Is Exactly This: Protecting The Environment Does Not Require Us To Be Against Large Suvs Or Trucks. Instead We Should Develop Technology To Cut Down Greenhouse Gas Emissions Because That Is Where The Action Is - It's Not About What The Size Of The Car Is.

To Those Critics Who Are So Pessimistic About Our Economy, I Say: Don't Be Economic Girlie Men!

If You Want To Turn A Vision Into Reality, You Have To Give 100% And Never Stop Believing In Your Dream.

Well, I Think That California Has Had A History Of Always Spending More Money Than It Takes In.

Someday The World Is Going To Know Who I Am-just Be Hearing My First Name.

No Matter What Your Dream Is, You Can Make That Dream A Reality, ... If You Dream About Being A Millionaire, You Can Be That. All You Have To Do Is Study And Be Smart.

The Greatest Feeling You Can Get In A Gym, Or The Most Satisfying Feeling You Can Get In The Gym Is... The Pump.

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.

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The Percentage Of Gays Is The Same, Probably, As Anywhere. Most Bodybuilders Are Straight, Regular Street Guys, Though A Lot Aren't Serious. Many In California Are Punks, Beach Bums Just Lying Around In The Sun And Maybe Collecting Unemployment.

I Knew I Was A Winner Back In The Late Sixties. I Knew I Was Destined For Great Things. People Will Say That Kind Of Thinking Is Totally Immodest. I Agree. Modesty Is Not A Word That Applies To Me In Any Way - I Hope It Never Will.

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I Set Out To Be The Best And I Am.

Marijuana... That's Not A Drug, That's A Plant.

The Forest Fires Are The Worst Disaster In California Since I Was Elected.

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.

Bodybuilders' Cocks Are The Same Size As Everyone Else's.

The Greatest Feeling You Can Get In A Gym Or The Most Satisfying Feeling You Can Get In The Gym Is The Pump. It Feels Fantastic. It's As Satisfying To Me As Cumming Is, You Know, As In Having Sex With A Woman And Cumming. So Can You Believe How Much I Am In Heaven? I Am Like Getting The Feeling Of Cumming In The Gym; I'm Getting The Feeling Of Cumming At Home; I'm Getting The Feeling Of Cumming Backstage; When I Pump Up, When I Pose Out In Front Of 5000 People I Get The Same Feeling, So I Am Cumming Day And Night. It's Terrific, Right? So You Know, I Am In Heaven.

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.

And You Know Something, Because Everything That I've Gotten - My Career, My Money, My Family; Everything That I've Gotten And Achieved Is Because Of California.

Bodybuilding Is Much Like Any Other Sport. To Be Successful, You Must Dedicate Yourself 100% To Your Training, Diet And Mental Approach.

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

I Think That People Are Interested Seeing Me On The Screen.

I Think That We Have To Do Everything We Can To Work Together, Democrats And Republicans, And Then If We Go The Initiative Route Like We Have Done In The Past, Go Together.

Working Together

I'm Sure A Lot Of People Out There Make Mistakes.

Making Mistakes

People Are Always Making A Fuss Over My $15-20-million Salaries. Believe Me, The Amount Is Meaningless Once My Wife, Maria, Finds Out About It. She's Already Spent Half Of My Salary From Terminator 7!

Women Are The Engine Driving The Growth In California's Economy. Women Make California's Economy Unique.

You Have To Do Everything Possible To Win No Matter What.

In Our Society, The Women Who Break Down Barriers Are Those Who Ignore Limits.

Bodybuilders And Fitness People Have Been Using, Very Extensively, Chiropractors In Order To Stay Healthy And Fit. Whenever I Had A Little Problem With My Body, I Always Ran To One Of My Dear Friends, Dr Franco Columbo, He Was Always Right There With The Adjustments. This Is How I Found Out The Best Way Of Going, Is To Use Chiropractors, Not Only After Injuries , But Also Before Injury.

I Know Now Why You Cry, But It's Something I Can Never Do.

Not Many People Understand What A Pump Is. It Must Be Experienced To Be Understood. It Is The Greatest Feeling That I Get. I Search For This Pump Because It Means That That My Muscles Will Grow When I Get It. I Get A Pump When The Blood Is Running Into My Muscles. They Become Really Tight With Blood. Like The Skin Is Going To Explode Any Minute. It's Like Someone Putting Air In My Muscles. It Blows Up. It Feels Fantastic.

I Think That Gay Marriage Should Be Between A Man And A Woman.

Kids Nowadays...tend To Go Overboard [on] Protein - Something I Believe To Be Totally Unnecsssary...[i State In] My Formula For Basic Good Eating: Eat About One Gram Of Protein For Every Two Pounds Of Body Weight.

I Feel Good Because I Believe I Have Made Progress In Rebuilding The People's Trust In Their Government.

I Was Born In Europe... And I've Traveled All Over The World. I Can Tell You That There Is No Place, No Country, That Is More Compassionate, More Generous, More Accepting, And More Welcoming Than The United States Of America.

I'm Telling You, If You Want To Have Good Advice, Never Pay Any Attention To The Camera Guys Because They Will Tell You Over And Over Something Is Wrong And Let's Reshoot It, Let's Do This And Let's Do That. Hey, Just Do It.

You Can't Tell A Kid That It's Time To Exercise; That's A Turn-off...you Have To Say 'let's Go To The Park And Have Some Fun.' Then You Get Them To Do Some Running, Play On The Swings, Practice On The Balance Beam, Basically Get A Full Workout Disguised As Play.

Having A Pump Is Like Having Sex. I Train Two, Sometimes Three Times A Day. Each Time I Get A Pump. It's Great. I Feel Like I'm Coming All Day.

If It's Hard To Remember, It'll Be Difficult To Forget.

Government's First Duty And Highest Obligation Is Public Safety.

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.

The Key To Success? Work Hard, Stay Focused And Marry A Kennedy.

You Must See It. You Must Believe It. And Then You Must Never Stop Working To Make It Happen.

Teddy Roosevelt Is Still A Hero Among Environmentalists For His Conservationist Policies.

Environmentalist

Always Have One Possibility In Mind And That Is To Go To The Top, To Be The Best. Everything Else Should Just Be A Means To That End.

Vision Creates Faith And Faith Creates Willpower.

I Do Squats Until I Fall Over And Pass Out. So What? It’s Not Going To Kill Me. I Wake Up Five Minutes Later And I’m Ok

Just Like In Bodybuilding, Failure Is Also A Necessary Experience For Growth In Our Own Lives, For If We're Never Tested To Our Limits, How Will We Know How Strong We Really Are? How Will We Ever Grow?

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I Have Plenty Of Money, Unlike Other Hollywood Celebrities Or Athletes That Have Not Invested Well.

You Have To Fight, You Have To Have Courage For What You Really Want

For The Hundreds Of Thousands Of Californians In Gay And Lesbian Households Who Are Managing Their Day-to-day Lives, This Decision Affirms The Full Legal Protections And Safeguards I Believe Everyone Deserves.

I Found A New Me. When I First Came Over To America, It Was Like, 'how Can I Be Rich? How Can I Build My Movie Career? How Can I Become The Most Muscular Man?' It Was All About Me, And Then There Was This Turn, And I Found It Was Really Great To Do This.

My Definition Of A Sport Is That It's A Physical Activity That Involves Competition. Since Bodybuilders Certainly Train And Then Compete, We Are Certainly A Sport.

I Was Delighted To Be Able To Do The Movie ["terminator: Genisys"] Without Getting Exhausted Or Feeling Old Or Tired Or Anything Like This. I Felt I Was In Great Shape And I Felt Really Young.

One Thing Arnold Schwarzenegger Isn't Is Self-effacing. Everything Has To Be The Biggest. His Money, His Muscles, His Movies And His Machines.

When The People Become Involved In Their Government, Government Becomes More Accountable, And Our Society Is Stronger, More Compassionate, And Better Prepared For The Challenges Of The Future.

And Now, Of Course This Is Another Thing I Didn't Count On, That Now As The Governor Of The State Of California, I Am Selling California Worldwide. You See That? Selling.

My Fellow Americans, This Is An Amazing Moment For Me. To Think That A Once-scrawny Boy From Austria Could Grow Up To Become Governor Of The State Of California And Then Stand Here... Then Stand Here In Madison Square Garden And Speak On Behalf Of The President Of The United States - That Is An Immigrant's Dream. It Is The American Dream.

My Instinct Was To Win, Eliminate Anyone Who Is In Competition, Destroy My Enemy And Move On Without Any Kind Of Hesitation At All.

Positive Thinking Can Be Contagious. Being Surrounded By Winners Helps You Develop Into A Winner.

Positive Thinking

When You Build A Career, You Should Never Imitate Anybody.

In Acting Class They Tell You That You Have To Be Real, Connect With The People, Connect With Your Partner. The Same As Politics, You Have To Connect To The People.

I'm Not Looking For Sympathy At All.

Looking For Sympathy

All I Know Is That The First Step Is To Create A Vision, Because When You See The Vision – The Beautiful Vision – That Creates The Want Power.

You Don't Really See A Muscle As A Part Of You, In A Way. You See It As A Thing. You Look At It As A Thing And You Say Well This Thing Has To Be Built A Little Longer, The Bicep Has To Be Longer; Or The Tricep Has To Be Thicker Here In The Elbow Area. And You Look At It And It Doesn't Even Seem To Belong To You. Like A Sculpture. Then After Looking At It A Sculptor Goes In With His Thing And Works A Little Bit, And You Do Maybe Then Some Extra Forced Reps To Get This Lower Part Out. You Form It. Just Like A Sculpture.

My Body Is Like Breakfast, Lunch, And Dinner. I Don't Think About It, I Just Have It.

The Better You Get, The Less You Run Around Showing Off As A Muscle Guy. You Know, You Wear Regular Shirts-not Always Trying To Show Off What You Have. You Talk Less About It. It's Like You Have A Little Bmw - You Want To Race The Hell Out Of This Car, Because You Know It's Just Going 110. But If You See Guys Driving A Ferrari Or A Lamborghini, They Slide Around At 60 On The Freeway Because They Know If They Press On That Accelerator They Are Going To Go 170. These Things Are The Same In Every Field.

I Think That The Important Thing To Know Is, Which Is Great About This Country [the Usa], When It Comes To Domestic Issues, We All Battle It Out And Fight It Between The Parties And All Those Kind Of Things To Get Things Done, But When It Comes To Foreign Issues, Overseas Kind Of Things, Then We All Speak With One Voice.

You Have To Remember Something: Everybody Pities The Weak; Jealousy You Have To Earn.

Freedom Is A Right Ultimately Defended By The Sacrifice Of America's Servicemen And Women.

The Secret Of Success 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 Etc.

Most Bodybuilders Only Have A Hazy Notion Of What They Want To Look Like. They Do Not Say, 'i Am Going To Be A Winner.' The Negative Impulses Around The Gym Can Be Incredible. I Would Hear Bodybuilders Complaining, 'oh,no! Not Another Set!' That Destroyed Them. I Have Always Believed That If You're Training For Nothing, You're Wasting Your Effort!

I Think That If I Have A Chance To Go Back, Why Not Just Go Back All The Way In History To The Times Of The Pyramids Or The Roman Days? I Think There Are So Many Great Historic Times Until Now That I Would Like To Get A Little Peek Of Those Periods, Rather Than Just 1984. Why Limit Yourself?

Always Listen To Your Inner Voice, Your Instincts

It Doesn't Really Matter What Party You Come From. I Think The People Appreciate That And They Know That You're Working Together, That You Can Provide The Kind Of Leadership To Bring Both Of The Parties Together, And Do The Kind Of Things That Need To Be Done For The State.

I'm Not On A Health Kick. I Know I Should Take Vitamins, For Example, But I Forget Half The Time. I Just Can't Be Bothered Carrying Around A Lot Of Little Bottles.

I Speak Directly To The People, And I Know That The People Of California Want To Have Better Leadership. They Want To Have Great Leadership. They Want To Have Somebody That Will Represent Them. And It Doesn't Matter If You're A Democrat Or A Republican, Young Or Old.

Experiencing Pain In Your Muscles And Aching, That's What Makes The Muscle Grow. And That Divides One From Being A Champion And One From Not Being A Champion. If You Can Go Through This Pain Barrier, You May Get To Be A Champion. If You Can't Go Through It, Forget It.

Whatever I Thought Might Hold Me Back, I Avoided. I Crossed Girls Off My List, Except As Tools For My Sexual Needs.

Good Things Don't Happen By Coincidence. Every Dream Carries With It Certain Risks, Especially The Risk Of Failure. But I Am Not Stopped By Risks. Supposed A Great Person Takes The Risk And Fails. Then The Person Must Try Again. You Cannot Fail Forever. If You Try Ten Times, You Have A Better Chance Of Making It On The Eleventh Try Than If You Didn't Try At All.

You Can't Be Paralyzed By Fear Of Failure Or You Will Never Push Yourself.

Fear Of Failure

I Have Rarely Seen The Government Do Anything That Was Effective.

You Have To Think Outside The Box.

Think Outside The Box

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