Pumping Iron

"You know, Louis, you look like something Michelangelo carved out."

"I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered."

"Never feel sorry for yourself. Remember, if you are training hard, he may be training twice as hard. You just gotta keep coming back stronger."

"Ive thrown up many times working out, but its all worth it."

"I dont have any weak points. I had weak points three years ago, but my main thing in mind is, my goal always was, to even out everything to the point... that everything is perfect. Which means if I want to increase one muscle a half inch, the rest of the body has to increase. I would never make one muscle increase or decrease, because everything fits together now, and all I have to do is get my posing routine down more perfect, which is almost impossible to do, you know. Its perfect already."

"Franco is pretty smart, but Francos a child, and when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advices. So its not that hard for me to give him the wrong advices."

"Milk is for babies; when you grow up, you have to drink beer."

"Its as satisfying to me as, uh, cumming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and cumming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of cumming in a gym, Im getting the feeling of cumming at home, Im getting the feeling of cumming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. I mean, its terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven."

"Youre the king, Arnold, and youre going to stay the king a long time."

"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. Lets say you train your biceps. Blood is rushing into your muscles and thats what we call The Pump. You muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and its really tight - its like somebody blowing air into it, into your muscle. It just blows up, and it feels really different. It feels fantastic."

"[walks up to the counter of Golds Gym] Can I sign up? I want to start gaining some muscles."

"I always felt my place was in America, and when I was ten years old I only dreamed of coming to America and being the greatest and being different from anybody else."