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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

If I See A Girl With Big Tits, I'm Going To Stare And Stare. And I'm Going To Think In My Mind What I Am Going To Do With Her If I Would Have Her.

I Will Always Stay Hungry, Never Satisfied With Current Accomplishments.

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

My Cpu Is A Neural Net Processor; A Learning Computer.

I Hate Pants. This Is Something I Have Inherited From My Father. He Despised Pants, And My Mother Was Never Allowed To Wear Them At Home. We're Talking About A Different Time Period Now, When The Man Was Much More The Ruler Of The House. But I Still Feel That Way, And Neither My Mother Nor Maria Is Allowed To Go Out With Me In Pants.

When You Campaign And Have To Participate In So Many Debates Just To The Win The Nomination Of Your Party, You've Had A Lot Of Practice. You Get To Figure Out As You Go From One Debate To Another Where You Made Your Mistakes. By The Time You Get To The Big Debate You're Pretty Polished.

I Can Promise You That When I Go To Sacramento I Will Pump Up Sacramento.

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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.

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.

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.

I Was Also Going To Give A Graduation Speech In Arizona This Weekend. But With My Accent, I Was Afraid They Would Try To Deport Me.

While Others Were Out Partying, I Was Training. While They Were Out Dancing At The Clubs, I Was Training... And Training... And Training.

I Never Set Limits Or Created Mental Barriers. You May Have Read That I Imagined My Biceps As Big As Mountain Peaks When I Did My Curling Exercises. This Visualization Process Was Essential If I Was To Gain The Kind Of Mass And Size I Needed To Win The Mr Olympia Contest Against Monsters Like Sergio Olivia And Lou Ferrigno.

The Writing Is Important, But The Way You Say The Line And The Pause You Give It, The Facial Expression - All Of That Is Very Important.

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.

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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This Is The Only Place That I Don't Feel Out Of Place, Because Everyone Here Is Out Of Place.

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.

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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.

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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.

As Long As I Live, I Will Never Forget That Day 21 Years Ago When I Raised My Hand And Took The Oath Of Citizenship. Do You Know How Proud I Was? I Was So Proud That I Walked Around With An American Flag Around My Shoulders All Day Long.

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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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I Didn't Mind Basic Training. It Taught Me That Something That Seems Impossible At The Start Can Be Achieved.

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

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

If I Can Sell Tickets To My Movies Like Red Sonja Or Last Action Hero, You Know I Can Sell Just About Anything.

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Ninety Percent Of The People Don't Realize That There Is Anything Below The Head. They Think That The Head Is Carried Around By Something Very Mysterious, And They're Not Aware That It's The Body, Something They Should Be In Tune With.

It Doesn't Matter What Party You Come From. The Key Thing Is That You Work On Behalf Of The People Rather Than On Behalf Of The Party.

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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

Look For Small Victories And Build On That. Each Small Victory, Even If It Is Just Getting Up Five Minutes Earlier, Gives You Confidence. You Realize That These Little Victories Make You Feel Great, And You Keep Going. You Realize That Being Paralyzed By Fear Of Failure Is Worse Than Failure.

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Luck Is For The Ill-prepared.

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I Think This Is Exactly Where The Action Is, Is In The Middle. I Have Seen It When I Was Governor Of The State Of California. I Have Seen It Firsthand, That The Only Way We Brought Democrats And Republicans Together, We Could Really Solve Very Important Issues. I Remember That's How We Really Started Rebuilding California And Invested $60 Billion In Infrastructure.

I Admired Hitler, For Instance, Because He Came From Being A Little Man With Almost No Formal Education, Up To Power. I Admire Him For Being Such A Good Public Speaker And For What He Did With It.

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My Relationship To Power And Authority Is That I'm All For It.

Authority And Power

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I'm Obsessed With Packing In As Much Work As Possible During Each Day, Simply Because There Is Only So Much Time You Have In A Lifetime. There Is Nothing Better Than To Go Home At Night And Know That You've Done Everything That You Could Do To Accomplish Your Work.

I Don't Suffer Of Anything That I've Lost.

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I Was Born To Be A Leader. I Love The Fact That Millions Of People Look Up To Me.

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.

The Word Infrastructure Means Nothing To The Majority Of People Of America. We Have To Come Up With A Sexier Word Than Infrastructure. So The Key Thing Is That You Have To Go Out And Promote And Market This The Right Way Like With Everything In Policy.

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

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 Have Inhaled, Exhaled Everything.

With Maria Shriver, He Raised Four Fantastic Children. In The Wake Of A Scandal He Brought Upon Himself, He Tried To Keep His Family Together.

You've Got To Believe In Yourself, You've Got To Have A Very Clear Vision, And You've Got Have The Fire In The Belly And Go Out And Not Be Shy With Working Because It Takes A Lot Of Work.

Help Others And Give Something Back. I Guarantee You Will Discover That While Public Service Improves The Lives And The World Around You, Its Greatest Reward Is The Enrichment And New Meaning It Will Bring Your Own Life.

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.

It's Simple, If It Jiggles, It's Fat.

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I Love Thanksgiving Turkey... It's The Only Time In Los Angeles That You See Natural Breasts.

All Exercises That You Do With Your Own Bodyweight Are Great.

It Doesn't Matter If You Are A Democrat Or Republican, If You're Young Or Old, What The Racial Thing Is, Nothing Matters To Me.

Bodybuilders And Fitness People Have Been Using Chiropractic Very Extensively In Order To Stay Healthy And Fit. I Found It Was Better To Go To A Chiropractor Before You Get Injured. We Are A Perfect Team, The World Of Fitness And The World Of Chiropractors.

Trust Yourself,..dig Deep Down And Ask Yourself Who You Want To Be? Not What, But Who?

Learned Helplessness Is The Giving-up Reaction, The Quitting Response That Follows From The Belief That Whatever You Do Doesn't Matter.

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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.

Always Listen To Your Inner Voice, Your Instincts

My Own Dreams Fortunately Came True In This Great State. I Became Mr. Universe; I Became A Successful Businessman. And Even Though Some People Say I Still Speak With A Slight Accent, I Have Reached The Top Of The Acting Profession.

It Is Unconstitutional To Deny People, Gay Or Lesbian Couples, The Right To Marriage. Everyone Has Equal Rights So This Is The Right Way To Go. I Think It's A Great Celebration For America.

I Hurt So Many People.

The Words "i Can't" Should Be Permanently Stricken From Your Vocabulary, Especially The Vocabulary Of Your Thoughts. You Must See Yourself Always Growing And Improving.

I Did Smoke A Joint And I Did Inhale. The Bottom Line Is That's What It Was In The '70s, That's What I Did.

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

I Was Always Dreaming About Very Powerful People. Dictators And Things Like That. I Was Always Impressed By People Who Could Be Remembered For Hundreds Of Years. Even Like Jesus, Being Remembered For Thousands Of Years.

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.

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

In [my] Youth I Was Smacked Around.

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

I'd Always Wanted To Tell People That When I Work On My Body I'm Thinking About Classical Sculpture, So I Jumped At The Chance To Show Off Body Building As An Art Form.

I Would Never Exchange My Life With Anybody Else's.

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

If You Are Gonna Wear Gloves When You Lift, Just Make Sure They Match Your Purse.

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.

I Can Look At A Chick Who's A Little Out Of Shape And If She Turns Me On, I Won't Hesitate To Date Her. If She's A Good F**k She Can Weigh 150 Pounds, I Don't Care.

Milk Are For Babies, When You Get Older You Drink Beer.

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.

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 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.

Global Warming Is One Of Those Things, Not Like An Earthquake Where There's A Big Bang And You Say, 'oh, My God, This Is Really, Has Hit Us.' It Creeps Up On You. ... Half A Degree Temperature Difference From One Year To The Next, A Little Bit Of Rise Of The Ocean, A Little Bit Of Melting Of The Glaciers, And Then All Of A Sudden It Is Too Late To Do Something About It.

If My Life Was A Movie, No One Would Believe It.

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From The Time They Get Up In The Morning And Flush The Toilet, They're Taxed. Then They Go And Get The Cup Of Coffee, They're Taxed....this Goes On All Day Long. Tax, Tax, Tax.

No Matter What You Do, You First Have To Have A Vision... To See Your Goal, To Believe In It, Have Faith In It And Chase It. And Then It's Fun To Chase It. If You Don't Have A Goal Or A Vision, Then You Have Nothing.

Failure Is Not An Option. Everyone Has To Succeed.

Motivational Sports

If I Can See It And Believe It, Then I Can Achieve It.

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

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

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.

The Arabs Are Terrorists And Israel Is Making The World A Safer Place.well Done Israel.

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

Positive Thinking

As Governor I Have Seen The Tremendous Changes Over The Last Few Years; The Amount Of Land That We Have Lost, The Trees That We Have Lost, The Homes That We Have Lost, Lives That Have Been Lost, And It Is Due To A Large Extent To Global Warming.

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

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?

If I Have The Chance To Time Travel, Might As Well Go All Out.

California Will Not Wait For Our Federal Government To Take Strong Action On Global Warming. We Won't Wait For The Federal Government. We Will Move Forward Because We Know It's The Right Thing To Do. We Will Lead On This Issue And We Will Get Other Western States Involved. I Think There's Not Great Leadership From The Federal Government When It Comes To Protecting The Environment.

The Best Activities For Your Health Are Pumping And Humping.

I Never Wanted To Be A Career Politician. I Always Am Interested Just To Take On Challenges That Everyone Says Are Impossible To Do And To Take It On.

The Greatest Feeling You Can Get In A Gym Or The Most Satisfying Feeling You Can Get In The Gym Is The Pump. Let's Say You Train Your Biceps, Blood Is Rushing In To Your Muscles And That's What We Call The Pump. Your Muscles Get A Really Tight Feeling Like Your Skin Is Going To Explode Any Minute And Its Really Tight And Its Like Someone Is Blowing Air Into Your Muscle And It Just Blows Up And It Feels Different, It Feels Fantastic.

I Ask Citizens And Governments Everywhere To Do Their Part By Conserving Energy And Reducing The Use Of Fossil Fuels For The Good Of The World Community. This Is Our Duty To Those Who Share This World With Us And To Those Who Follow Us: Wherever We See A Threat To Our Environment We Must Take Action

On The Way Up Here To The Podium, A Gentleman Came Up To Me And Said, "governor, You Are As Good A Politician As You Were An Actor." What A Cheap Shot.

Between Your Faith And My Glock Nine Millimeter, I'll Take The Glock.

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

I Think It Is Important That We Go And Bring Both Of The Parties Together. The More We Go To The Left, The More We Go To The Right, I Believe Of What President Eisenhower Said, "politics Is Like The Road. The Left And The Right Represents The Gutter, And The Middle Is Drivable."

I Like The Color Red Because It's A Fire. And I See Myself As Always Being On Fire.

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

The Last Three Or Four Reps Is What Makes The Muscle Grow.

I Won't Raise Taxes, Because I Do Not Want To Punish The People For The Politicians' Mistakes.

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.

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

You Know, Nothing Is More Important Than Education, Because Nowhere Are Our Stakes Higher; Our Future Depends On The Quality Of Education Of Our Children Today.

We Have To Make Sure Everyone In California Has A Great Job. A Fantastic Job!

During The Time I Was In Office We Have Seen The Beginning Of The Elimination Of The Fire Season Completely And Are Having Fires All Year Round. I Think We Have Seen The Major Problem Of The Destruction Of Land And Property And Lives That Is A Major Problem Because We Don't Have The Resources For That Many Fires And We Don't Have The Resources And The Manpower To Fight Those Fires Throughout The Year.

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

I Make My Protein Drink With Whiskey. People Think I'm Crazy, But That's The Way I Am. I Get Stoned, I Do My Own Thing.

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.

The Facts Are There That We Have Created, Man Has, A Self-inflicted Wound That Man Has Created Through Global Warming.

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

Fear Of Failure

I Have A Good Sense Of My Body In A Bathing Suit Around People Who Appreciate What I'm Doing, Like A Contest. Then I'm Proud. On Television I Am Proud. But On A Beach Most People Are Not Experts. The General Public Doesn't Know How To Look. How Proud Can You Be When They Don't Even Know What They're Looking At?

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.

Here's What You Must Do. It's Pretty Simple, Really, But I Didn't Say Easy. It's What Sets Those Who Succeed Apart From Those Who Don't: You Must Have A Sincere And Burning Desire To Achieve What You Dream, Dedicate Yourself To Making Progress, And Take Control Of Your Circumstances To Change Your Body.

I Went From Being The Terminator To Being The Governator.

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.

People Need To Be Insured So When You Have An Accident Out There, Or When Something Catastrophic Happens To You, That You're Covered And There's Not Someone Else Has To Pay For You. That Is As Simple As That.

People Get Very Creative If You Include Them.

We Want To Make Sure Children Aren't Left Without Any Books. We Want To Make Sure Our Children Have The Books, That They Have A Place In The Castle. We Want To Make Sure That Their Mothers Have Affordable Day Care. We Want To Make Sure We Give The Older People The Care That They Need.

For Me Life Is Continuously Being Hungry. The Meaning Of Life Is Not Simply To Exist, To Survive, But To Move Ahead, To Go Up, To Achieve, To Conquer.

My Relationship To Power And Authority Is That I'm All For It. People Need Somebody To Watch Over Them. Ninety-five Percent Of The People In The World Need To Be Told What To Do And How To Behave.

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.

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If It Can Bleed, We Can Kill It.

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If I Train The Hardest, Run The Longest, Go Beyond What Anyone Else Has The Mental Determination To Do, I Will Be The Winner.

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I Embrace Technology And I Just Think That In 1984 When James Cameron Wrote About The Technology, Everyone Thought He Was Totally Way Out There And It Was Science Fiction. Now It's Almost Reality What He Talked About. The Machines Have Taken Over, Except They Have Not Become Self-aware, Like In Terminator. So This Is Really One Thing That We Have To Watch Out For, But I Think Technology Is Good.

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I Think The First And Most Important Thing Is That You've Got To Have A Goal And A Vision.

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