Arnold Schwarzenegger
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350 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 May
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, number seven and number nine, number two, number one. You come together, stand together closely, and now do a back pose. Okay, didn't we just do a back pose? You know, it's like for the 15th time. And he says, okay, turn around. Now we want to see a side chest pose. And okay, now let's see the vacuum. And they suck in your stomach, you know.
So you do this over and over and over because they want to compare with the different guys, right? And not just always the same. And so you stand out there for hours. And now you go back at night when it's the final round. and you get judged by your posing and by your total performance. So now you have to do it again. So you can get cramped up.
So the key though is don't be so dramatic with... Don't be so dramatic. I, for instance, I remember in 1980, At the Mr. Olympia, I came third in the pre-judging because I still had too much fluid. And the judges came to me and said, I'm sorry to tell you, but you're not going to win tonight. And I said, no shit. I said, what's wrong?
He says, you're not as sharp as you were the last time we saw you. And I said, of course, now five years later, I know that we understand that, but I just want you to know it's not going to happen. So I went literally into a sauna when I went back after the pre-charging. I went into a sauna at the hotel and I posed for an hour to sweat out more fluid.
And then I went back at night and I was sharper. And then I did my best job with the posing routine and I ended up winning. Wow. So you have to really find the right level so you don't kind of cramp up and you can't pose anymore and lose, but still be sharp enough.
Well, I mean, I think that the first one was Reg Park. Reg Park. And Steve Reeves. These were guys that did Hercules movies. And that inspired me to get a body like that, but also inspired me to have a vision beyond my career, which was to get into movies. So to me that's- Oh, that's fucking fascinating.
Yeah, to me that was very, very important that I said to myself, when I started reading about the Reg Park and about Steve Reeves in the magazines, it was very clear that this guy's won Mr. Universe, not only once, but I mean like Reg Park won it three times, Mr. Universe. And then in Rome, which was the town where they did the movies, they discovered him and they brought him down to Rome
And they had him do Hercules movies. And he made several Hercules movies. And I said to myself, that's what I have to do. I have to get that good. I have to win Mr. Universe so many times so that they would notice me also. And blah, blah, blah. So it gave me a vision. So Reg Park and Steve Reeves was the number one, the guys that were very important. Muhammad Ali was very important.
Because when I came to the United States, I hung out with him. And he was a very generous guy. And And he loved, he was fascinated with bodybuilding, even though he didn't want to work out with weights. But he was fascinated by that whole thing. He always had me push him around. He loved, and he'd say to his guys, he says, watch this, watch what Aaron does. He says, push me against the wall.
And then I would grab him and then push him against the wall. And then he would say, you guys, you see what I'm saying, how strong he is? Can you believe that? I mean, he just loved it. And he also, you know, just loved calling me Schwarzenegger.
He always, I mean, he was like, we just saw a playback on one of the interview shows where the interviewer said, next coming out is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And he says, yeah, Schwarzenegger. And he said, I didn't say that, the interviewer said. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. And he says, no, we're coming out Schwarzenegger. And he mumbles, Schwarzenegger. And he did it with me also.
He would say, one of us guys he said just look at his name you know and he said it's one of us you know and he just and he just loved me and he was so i watched him all the time and i went one time i mean i people always talk about you know he gives away money but i saw him one time an airport giving a hundred dollars to some guy that was begging for money
He didn't even look how much money he had in the hand. He just gave it to him. And he says, this doesn't mean anything. He says, I'm not into money. He was never into that. So he was like a very, very kind of generous person. And I realized how generous he was. But he started his foundations then. He started giving money away. And he was always thinking about a bigger cost than boxing was. Yeah.
And... Then they also learned from him how he sells boxing through his personality. And so I wanted to do the same thing. So the purse went up from $2 million for a fight to $5 million for a fight, $10 million for a fight. It was all because of personalities and who draw the most. And so I wanted to do the same thing in bodybuilding.
So he was kind of an example for me for generosity and being smart and being beyond just the sport and really just beating up. Like you always say, there's a time where you beat up on guys and put them down, but there's a time where you lift up the whole sport. And this is the most important thing. I want to do the same thing. Okay, I want to pump up.
and I want to go and win and destroy my competition. But then it was the time to build the whole sport up and to make it actually a bigger sport, offer more cash prizes. So they were very important.
But then when I got more and more into life and the global thinking, I think people like, for instance, when I met my father-in-law, Sergeant Shriver, he taught me a lot about generosity, about service. and giving back to the community, giving back to your town and to your state and to your country in some way. And he was, of course, the president of Special Olympics.
And his wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, started Special Olympics. So I got involved with Special Olympics. So he taught me about service and all of that stuff. So he became kind of a mentor. Ronald Reagan became a mentor. Jesus. Because to me, I was always a Republican, right?
And so when Nixon was campaigning in 1968 against Humphrey, and he talked about, you know, get government off your back and less taxes and a strong military, strong law enforcement. I said, this is me. I love this guy. And then Humphrey talked more like a socialist in Austria, right? So I didn't like that. So I said, what party does he belong to? He said, Republican.
I said, well, then I'm a Republican. And so I followed Reagan, of course, and I was campaigning for Reagan. He became one of my heroes. And then Gorbachev became one of my heroes because he was able to recognize that communism doesn't work. And to have the boss to be president of Russia and to say, communism doesn't work, let's dismantle this whole thing that doesn't work.
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