Schwarzenegger used his trademark humor to set up the central thesis of his speech: the myth of the self-made person. After playfully listing his accomplishments — greatest bodybuilder of all time, the Terminator, predator killer with his bare hands — he delivered this line with unexpected gravity. He explained that accepting the self-made label would discount every person who helped him along the way — the parents who raised him, the coaches who trained him, the mentors who guided him. 'It gives the wrong impression that we can do it all alone. None of us can.' The line became the most quoted moment from the speech.