Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

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.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

I love being in the gym and everything involved in it.

When I was 7 or 8, I'd go to bodybuilding shows with my family because they had friends who were into it, and it became something I wanted to do one day. I wanted to look big and strong.

My first race was in October 2001 in Kapsabet, Kenya. It was a 10km road race. I was excited and I was happy to know I am good in running.

I enjoy lifting weights more than I enjoy getting on the treadmill to run.

Ladies, don't be afraid of getting big, bulky arm muscles from resistance exercise.

I would say that Breaking2 was my best race because I was running against something no one had 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 used to do too much weight training years ago. You probably wouldn't see it on me but I probably had a bit too much muscle.

In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in the gym every day, even at lunchtime and break times. I was thinking about boxing at that time but didn't think I would actually do it.

I can lift weights every day and I'm not going to look huge, but it's good to get in the weight room every now and then.

I have never been a big fan of lifting weights or exercising.

I don't want to be the second-strongest man in the United States or the second-strongest man in the world. They don't get much attention. I definitely want to be No. 1.

I like to do squats because I want my butt to be bigger.

I've always worked out very hard, very intensely, with a lot of free weights.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.