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"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."
"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character."
"To be a champion, you have to think like a champion."
"Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner."
"If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results."
"There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps."
"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."
"The more you do, the more you can do."
"When you have a vision, you don't need to be pushed. You are pulled by that vision."
"If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream."
"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."
"When you have a vision, everything becomes easy. You see the goal, and every rep brings you closer to it."
"Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit."
"Work your butt off. There is no magic pill. You have to work, and work, and work."
"You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."
"You have to have a vision. If you don't have a vision of where you're going, you drift around and you never end up anywhere."
"Break the rules, not the law, but break the rules. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved."
"You must have a clear vision of where you want to go. You cannot get there without a map."
"Don't be afraid to fail. You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself."
"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America."
"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."
"Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring to your own life."
"If you don't have a goal, you're just drifting around."
"Ignore the naysayers. When someone says, 'no, it can't be done,' I hear 'yes, it can be done.'"
"I’m a big believer in hard work, and I think that if you work hard, you can achieve anything."
"I welcome the pain. I don't know why, but I just like the pain."
"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?"
"Life is all about the reps. Whether it’s in the gym or in your career, you have to put in the reps."
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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