Top 350 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

202. “Strong on desire but short on smarts, these.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

203. “I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

204. “It’s time now to turn this mush into muscles.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

205. “Always keep in mind that training stimulates growth, but that actual growth takes place while you are resting.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

206. “If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

207. “What I’m doing is the thing I want to do. I don’t care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

208. “As we get older the muscle structure tends to atrophy at a faster and faster rate. The ideal remedy for this is bodybuilding.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

209. “I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

210. “I set out to be the best and I am.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

211. “I cannot – nor will not – be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

212. “I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

213. “You have to build the ultimate physical machine, but also the ultimate mind.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

214. “I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn’t need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn’t like.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

215. “My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

216. “I’d always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I’m thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

217. “After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

218. “You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

219. “I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

220. “I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

221. “My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

222. “On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

223. “It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

224. “My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won’t know what hit them.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

225. “I’m obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you’ve done everything that you could do to accomplish your work.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

226. “I made my fair share of mistakes.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

227. “It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you’re young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

228. “I’ve seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

229. “Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

230. “Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that’s what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can’t go through it, forget it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

231. “It doesn’t matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

232. “I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

233. “My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

234. “I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

235. “Don’t go where it’s crowded. Go where it’s empty. Even though it’s harder to get there, that’s where you belong and where there’s less competition.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

236. “We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

237. “Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s – the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

238. “I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

239. “I don’t understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I’ve made four movies in Mexico.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

240. “Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

241. “I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

242. “I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant. I mean there’s nothing better than working for the people – for the common people and being a public servant, and I have seen this.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

243. “I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

244. “My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

245. “Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

246. “He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

247. “My definition of a sport is that it’s a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

248. “My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

249. “If I would do another ‘Terminator’ movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

250. “I’m not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can’t be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger