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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Bodybuilding

"From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Bodybuilding

"I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Bodybuilding

"When I was 15-years-old, 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."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Bodybuilding

"There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Bodybuilding

"Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Bodybuilding

"I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?"

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Bodybuilding

"I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Bodybuilding

"The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace."

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