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Onstage I'm Always Different Than Offstage. I Can Be Very Friendly Offstage, But Onstage I Will Pull One Trick After Another On My Competition To Wipe Him Out, You Know-because It's My Living And I Have To Win. Franco Is My Best Friend, But I Will Do As Much As I Can To Make Him Look Bad And Make Me Look Good.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Onstage I'm Always Different Than Offstage. I Can Be Very Friendly Offstage, But Onstage I Will Pull One Trick After Another On My Competition To Wipe Him Out, You Know-because It's My Living And I Have To Win. Franco Is My Best Friend, But I Will Do As Much As I Can To Make Him Look Bad And Make Me Look Good.

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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.

People Get Very Creative If You Include Them.

People Say, My God, You're So Disciplined. But It Has Nothing To Do With Discipline; I Loved It. Because I Knew That Every Time I Went To The Gym I Was One Step Closer To Winning The Competition.

In [my] Youth I Was Smacked Around.

If You're In Touch With Your Body, You Certainly Have An Enormous Sexual Advantage. The Mind-body Connection Is The Same In Sex As It Is In Training.

Discipline Is What You Use When You Don't Want To Do Something, When You Have To Force Yourself.

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.

Almost Anything Difficult, Any Challenge Takes Time, Patience, And Hard Work.

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

What I'm Doing Is The Thing I Want To Do. I Don't Care What Other People Think. I Still Will Be A Bodybuilder. I Love It. I Love The Feeling In My Muscles, I Love The Competition, And I Love The Things It Gives Me.

It Is Going To Be Tough If You Look For The Easy Way Out Because Very Rarely Is There An Easy Way Out. There Is Nothing That Replaces Hard Work.

You're Always As Good As Your Last Movie And That's The Same With Politics. If You Are Successful With A Certain Policy, Then You're Hot; If You're Successful With The Economy, Or Bringing Down The Unemployment Rate, Then You're Hot. But If You're Not Successful, Then Things Go South Very Quickly.

I've Seen Firsthand Coming Here With Empty Pockets But Full Of Dreams, Full Of Desire, Full Of Will To Succeed, But With The Opportunities That I Had, I Could Make It. This Is Why We Have To Get Back And Bring California Back To Where It Once Was.

Desire Something And Don't Just Care What You Have To Go Through To Get It.

To Restore The Trust Of The People, We Must Reform The Way The Government Operates.

I Am A Big Believer In Education, Because When I Grew Up In Austria - When I Grew Up In Austria I Had A Great Education. I Had Great Teachers.

The Biggest Problem That We Have Is That California Is Being Run Now By Special Interests. All Of The Politicians Are Not Anymore Making The Moves For The People, But For Special Interests And We Have To Stop That.

I Am What I Am - Which Is I Have Aged.

Teachers And Nurses Get The Best Seats In Heaven.

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.

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

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.

Money Doesn't Make You Happy. I Now Have $50 Million But I Was Just As Happy When I Had $48 Million.

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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.

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

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.

"with My Desire And Drive, I Definitely Wasn't Normal. Normal People Can Be Happy With A Regular Life. I Was Different. I Felt There Was More To Life Than Plodding Through A Normal Existence. I'd Always Been Impressed By Stories Of Greatness And Power. I Wanted To Do Something Special, To Be Recognized As The Best. I Saw Bodybuilding As The Vehicle That Would Take Me To The Top, And I Put All My Energy Into It.

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