כמובן שארנולד הוא המלך ולכן נתחיל איתו:
"The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and the pain.
That's why I call it the torture routine, because its like forced torture. Torturing my body.
What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow, grow is what I want. Therefore for me, pain is pleasure.
And so when I experience pain im in heaven.""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."
"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 100 percent."
ציטוט לשחיפים או אקס שחיפים שבנינו:
"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."
כל מתאמן רציני צריך שהמשפט הזה יהיה חרוט לו בראש:
"If the weight doesn't scare you it aint heavy enough"
ולסיום אחד להארד קור בנינו, או סתם לימים קשים:
"The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."