Top 350 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “My desire was to leave home in an organized way. Because I was still just a kid, I decided that the best course for independence was to mind my own business and make my own money. I would do any kind of work. I was not shy at all about picking up a shovel and digging.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

302. “It doesn’t matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.”

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303. “When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.”

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304. “I’ll be back always sounded a little girly to me.”

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305. “I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.”

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306. “Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.”

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307. “Well,” the officer said with a smile, “due to the fact that you are somewhat unsafe around here, we’ll approve your request and let you go early. We can’t have you crashing any more tanks.”

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308. “He was also a terrific baseball player. That’s what had helped him refine his waist: tens of thousands of reps twisting to swing a bat.”

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309. “I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.”

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310. “The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.”

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311. “When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.”

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312. “Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.”

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313. “People get very creative if you include them.”

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314. “I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.”

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315. “When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they – you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.”

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316. “When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you’re into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.”

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317. “Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.”

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318. “This is the only place that I don’t feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.”

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319. “Men shouldn’t feel like fags just because they want to have nice-looking bodies.”

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320. “I’m telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let’s reshoot it, let’s do this and let’s do that. Hey, just do it.”

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321. “What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.”

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322. “The competition physique should be as much pure lean mass as possible, with any excess body fat stripped away. As the saying goes, “You can’t flex fat.” But fat on your body makes you feel bigger than you actually are, and this sense of being bigger is psychologically satisfying to most bodybuilders.”

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323. “Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.”

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324. “It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it’s a great celebration for America.”

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325. “I have inhaled, exhaled everything.”

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326. “So is that what’s important to you? To be able to freeze in the middle of a scene and to have somebody give you your line? Wouldn’t it be much better to go through Africa and show them how to dig wells and how to make vegetables grow and inspire them to plant?”

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327. “One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.”

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328. “Mass is vital to a bodybuilder’s physique. But it is the shape and the quality of this mass that win contests.”

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329. “In the past, before the physiology of abdominal training was well understood, bodybuilders used to do a lot of “conventional” abdominal exercises such as Sit-Ups and Leg Raises. Unfortunately, those are not primary abdominal exercises but instead work the iliopsoas muscles – the hip flexors.”

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330. “I’d closed my ears to my friends’ horror stories about married life. “Ha! Now you get to argue about who should change the diapers.” Or “What kind of food makes a woman stop giving blow jobs? Wedding cake!” Or “Oh boy, wait until she hits menopause.” I paid no attention to any of that. “Just let me stumble into it,” I told them. “I don’t want to be forewarned.”

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331. “I’m a competitive bodybuilder; I’m not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it’s a different mentality entirely.”

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332. “We had a strict routine that nothing could change: we’d get up at six, and it would be my job or Meinhard’s to get milk from the farm door. When w were a little older and starting to play sports, exercises were added to the chores, and we had to earn our breakfast by doing sit-ups. In the afternoon, we’d finish our homework and chores, and my father would make us practice soccer no matter how bad the weather was.”

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333. “The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren’t serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.”

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334. “Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn’t feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn’t share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.”

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335. “He had a voice you couldn’t miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.”

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336. “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.”

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337. “The average man,” explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, “loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five.”

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338. “Love stories are built around people’s idiosyncrasies.”

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339. “I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team.”

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340. “It was a tough movie to make, with lots of stunts and injuries and craziness and night shooting and dust.”

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341. “For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.”

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342. “My fellow Republicans acted like they’d been punched in the stomach. “You have them on the ropes, go in for the kill!” they said. This was my first real taste of the new Republican ideology that any compromise is a sign of weakness.”

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343. “When you hook your feet under a support and lift your torso up in a conventional Sit-Up, you are also using the iliopsoas muscles.”

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344. “Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning.”

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345. “It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.”

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346. “The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”

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347. “I think that every job that you can save is important. Every job that you can create is very important and it should not be the number one reason why we invest in infrastructure to create jobs.”

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348. “With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.”

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349. “The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.”

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350. “We want to make sure children aren’t left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger