Quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger

One sign of possible overtraining is a lack of a pump during your workouts.)

In the past, before the physiology of abdominal training was well understood, bodybuilders used to do a lot of "conventional" abdominal exercises such as Sit-Ups and Leg Raises. Unfortunately, those are not primary abdominal exercises but instead work the iliopsoas muscles—the hip flexors.

When you hook your feet under a support and lift your torso up in a conventional Sit-Up, you are also using the iliopsoas muscles.

The competition physique should be as much pure lean mass as possible, with any excess body fat stripped away. As the saying goes, "You can't flex fat." But fat on your body makes you feel bigger than you actually are, and this sense of being bigger is psychologically satisfying to most bodybuilders.

Mass is vital to a bodybuilder's physique. But it is the shape and the quality of this mass that win contests.

When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you're into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.

It's time now to turn this mush into muscles

I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Well," the officer said with a smile, "due to the fact that you are somewhat unsafe around here, we'll approve your request and let you go early. We can't have you crashing any more tanks.

It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.

Build a house, and your investment returns value. Buy a couch, and the minute you take it out of the furniture store, it loses value. That's why I always say a house, you invest in; furniture, you spend money on.

But life is richer when we embrace the multitudes we all contain, even if we aren't consistent and what we do doesn't always make sense, even to us.

The only way to make the possible possible is to try the impossible. If you fail, so what? That's what everybody expects. But if you succeed, you make the world a much better place.

you work, you make the money, and then you can afford this car; you train and then you win championships. There was no shortcut; you earned it.

The tenth or eleventh repetition of Barbell Curls, while your biceps are screaming in agony, may be the only way to develop championship arms. This

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

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.

I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win.

I aimed to be a leader someday, but I knew it was important to learn obedience as well.

I have found you can still get the pump to come if you focus and concentrate hard enough.

I liked the army, I told them, but the Munich job was a giant opportunity for my career. "Well," the officer said with a smile, "due to the fact that you are somewhat unsafe around here, we'll approve your request and let you go early. We can't have you crashing any more tanks.

His answer to life was discipline. We had a strict routine that nothing could change:

And when you visualize something very clearly, you believe that you 100 percent can get there.

My father believed just as strongly in training our brains. After Mass on Sunday, he'd take us on a family outing: visiting another village, maybe, or seeing a play, or watching him perform with the police band. Then in the evening we had to write a report on our activities, ten pages at least. He'd hand back our papers with red ink scribbled all over them, and if we had spelled a word wrong, we had to copy it fifty times over. I loved my father and really wanted to be like him.