"Money doesn't make me happy. It doesn't matter to me if I get 48 or 50 million dollar."
- 1992
"What I am most happy about is that I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me when I daydream that it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time."
"Bodybuilding ska vara roligt eftersom du får en känsla av tillfredsställelse, som är svår att förklara. Det känns bra att få pump. Det är faktiskt den bästa känslan en byggare kan ha."
Ur filmen Pumping lron, 1975
"This was the first time I knew pain could become pleasure. We were benefiting from the pain, breaking the pain barrier. We looked at this pain as a positive thing, because we grew. It was a fantastic feeling to gain size from pain. The whole idea of pain became a pleasure trip."
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
"Fortsätt vara hungrig på livet, håll dig vid god hälsa, var en gentleman, tro starkt på dig själv och du passerar alla gränser."
1975
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."
"När jag var tio år drömde jag om att komma till Amerika och vara annorlunda jämfört med alla andra."
1979
"Sports don't just make our bodies get in better shape, they don't just make us get stronger, or faster or more flexible. But sports also teaches us lessons for life. Lessons such as discipline, lessons such as setting goals, how to deal with failure, camaraderie and all the things we need later in life."
Presskonferens för Goodwill Games 21 juli 1990
Here's what Arnold Schwarzenegger said about "Before and After" Photos:
"We all have a way of failing to notice small gradual changes, but photographs can quickly remind us just how great the overall change has been. Have some photos taken of yourself in a bathing suit from the front, rear and sides. Then put them away for a while, along with a record of your weight and measurements at the time the photos were taken.
When you think you've made some progress, repeat the process, and compare the "before" photos with the "after." You may be very surprised at the differences that become apparent when you study the two sets of pictures.
Continue to do this. The photographs will not only help you evaluate the results of your training during each of the intervals, but will also create a permanent history of the changes in your body as a result of your weight training program. You will probably discover you are smiling a lot more."
(Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men, by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Bill Dobbins, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, p. 29)
"Min hemlighet består av tre delar som jag lärde mig på gymmet - självförtroende, positiv mental attityd och ärligt hårt arbete. Många känner till dessa principer men det är väldigt få personer som kan praktisera detta. Varje dag hör jag någon som säger 'Jag är för fet. Jag måste gå ner 5 kg, men det går inte.' 'Jag står stilla i min utveckling, det händer ingenting.' Jag skulle hata mig själv om jag hade en sådan attityd, om jag var så svag."
Ur The Education of a Bodybuilder, 1979
"People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!"
1993
"Den jag verkligen skulle vilja jobba med är Clint Eastwood. Han är min stora idol."
1991
"When I was in Stay Hungry years ago, I said to myself, 'There is Clint Eastwood up there and Charles Bronson and Warren Beatty, so why not me too? It seems pretty empty up there, so what the hell? There is room for one more. I can squeeze in there'."
"This is the worst birthday ever, because one third of my life has gone."
Arnold Schwarzenegger firar sin femtionde födelsedag 1997
"People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!"
1993
"Everytime I was in a competition in bodybuilding my heart was always pounding, and I had a great fear of the humiliation of losing. We never stay at the top all the time. No one ever has, and no one ever will."
1993
"Jag var för grov för att bli filmskådis, jag hade ett för långt namn, förfärlig accent. Jaha."
1993
"It is as satisfying to me as coming is - you know, as having sex with a woman and coming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am, like, getting the feeling of coming in the gym. I'm getting the feeling of coming at home. I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up. When I pose out in front of 5.000 people I get the same feeling. So I'm coming day and night."
Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about bodybuilding and sex in Pumping Iron 1975
"Let's put it this way. I will change diapers, but I don't exactly stand in line for it."
Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about his new baby, 1992
"Allt i mitt liv har varit så otroligt bra att jag alltid tror att jag ska höra min mor skrika: 'Arnold! Dags att vakna!' och då slår jag upp ögonen och är tillbaka i den lilla byn i Österrike. Så har jag tänkt många gånger men jag hoppas att allt detta inte är en dröm."
1995
"I was always interested in proportion and perfection. When I was fifteen, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me."
"Jag skulle vilja tacka min underbara fru, Maria Shriver, som är den bästa kvinnan i världen. Om jag inte nämner henne... ingen sex på en vecka."
Sagt under ett seminarium på University of Wisconsin, maj 1996
"The best exercises for your health is humping and pumping."
"De flesta som tränar har en väldigt vag uppfattning om hur de skulle vilja se ut. De säger inte 'Jag kommer att bli en vinnare.' Ibland är det helt otroligt vad mycket negativa impulser det cirkulerar på gymet. Jag hör bodybuilders som klagar: 'Oh nej, inte ett set till.' Sådant bara förstör. Jag har alltid sagt att om man tränar för ingenting, då är det förkastad ansträngning."
Ur The Education of a Bodybuilder, 1979
"Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Suppose a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all."
"Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you."
Maria Shriver, when she introduced Arnold to Ted Kennedy
'As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: ‘I can be there.’
'We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.'
"Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you."
Maria Shriver, when she introduced Arnold to Ted Kennedy
'My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitiation at all.'
'The best activitities for your health are pumping and humping.' - 1975
'Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.' - 1975
'Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day..." - 1979
'Stay hungry, stay healthy, ba a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.' - 1975
'The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.'
'My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.'
'It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.'
"In Pumping Iron, I got to play one of the all-time great cinematic characters...myself." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
