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Arnold Schwarzenegger is a believer in 'reps. ' Whether it was lifting weights 5 hours a day or practicing a speech 50 times, he understood that focus is about repetition. 'There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps. ' He blocked out the naysayers who said he had an accent, a funny name, and an overly large body. By focusing entirely on his vision, he made the impossible inevitable. He teaches that you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
"If you don't have a goal, you're just drifting around."
"You must have a goal. If you don't have a goal, you are just drifting around."
"Your focus determines your reality. If you believe you are a champion, you will train like one."
"I didn't just want to be a bodybuilding champion, I wanted to be the best bodybuilder of all time."
"When you have a vision, you can ignore the pain. You focus on the gain."
"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."
"If you don't have a vision of where you are going, if you don't have a goal, you drift around and you never end up anywhere."
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
"Vision is the most important thing. You have to have a goal. You have to have a vision of what it is you want to achieve."
"The mind-muscle connection is the most important part of training."
"Everything I have ever done was based on a vision. You need to see it before you can be it."
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe it 100 percent."
"I saw myself being on that stage, winning the trophy. I saw it so clearly that I felt it in my hands."
"Everything I have ever achieved is because I had a vision. I could see it very clearly in front of me."
"I always wrote down my goals. It wasn’t enough to just tell myself I wanted to be a movie star. I had to write it down."
"When you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest is much easier."
"I hate Plan B. When you start doubting yourself, that's very dangerous. Because now what you're basically saying is that if my plan doesn't work, I have a fallback plan, I have a safety net."
"The more you visualize the goal, the more comfortable you feel that it’s going to happen."
"Every rep counts, every set counts, every meal counts."
"You can have the best ship in the world, but if the captain doesn't know where to go, he will just drift around."
"The vision is the most important thing. If you don't have the vision, the work becomes a chore."
"Visualizing your goal and then going after it is the only way to build real self-assurance."
"You must have a clear vision of where you want to go. You cannot get there without a map."
"It is not about the body. It is about the mind. It is about the visualization. It is about the goal."
"Don't overthink. If you think too much, the mind gets in the way. Just do the work."
"Your vision must be so clear that you can taste it."
"If you don't find the time to dream, you'll never find the time to achieve."
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