Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be an accomplishment.
To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.
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.
One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.
People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks
When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy
When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.
I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.
I was always an overachiever.
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.
Ultimately I want to win. That's my main focus as my rookie year.
I'm too competitive to try and ride on somebody's coattails to get a W.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
What do you want to be? If you don't put the work in, you're not going to be able to be it.
Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
It's always been there, that competitive instinct... I just want to win.
