Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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. I have no fear of fainting. 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. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.

I have the strength to endure it all.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

On a 60-mile trek with a 200-kg. bergen on my back, I felt my ankle break. Some might have given up. I broke my other ankle to even up the pain. And carried on.

My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say... "I don't care what happens"

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

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.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.