Arnold Schwarzenegger Motivational Sports Quotations

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 am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.