Arnold Schwarzenegger
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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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And everyone operates differently, but I mean, that's what I did. I realized that the mind is so important to really lift the ultimate weight and also important to motivate you to get to the gym and also important to stay in there for more than two hours like we were competing in bodybuilding and then weightlifting and then powerlifting. So we had to train more than two hours.
So I mean, how do you make yourself do that? And that's when you then come up with all the various different principles that you need in order to carry you through.
Well, again, I think that when you compete, there is a competition, a psychological kind of a little warfare going on. Sure. You know, and we have seen that very well, I think, in the 60s with Muhammad Ali in boxing. Right. You know, that boxing was not just boxing. You know, I think that Ali taught us all...
that there's another dimension to that, which was the psychological warfare that goes on or the selling of the sport itself that you can box as well as you can. But if you're not a really good salesman, And if you don't create a certain personality that people fall in love with, then you don't really have much. Then you will have your 10,000 people at the boxing arena and that's it.
But Ali figured out how to get 25,000 people and how to get 50,000, and how to fill a stadium. And it was all a psychological thing that he did. And so I did the same thing in bodybuilding. I just tried to figure out, okay, what are the vulnerabilities that those guys have? And then I would just... you know, use that.
Yeah, exactly. And I was trying to, well, there was a two-pronged agenda. There was the one is to win, and the other one was, you know, to kind of be entertaining for pumping on. Yeah. And so I was trying to kind of show people how he can kind of slowly talk an entire family into losing.
It started out early already, you know, by telling them about, you know, it's just, you know, I dragged them in by talking about my mother, because they're Italians, and they love family.
And the Ferrigno's, they loved family, and they always loved talking about the family, and the daughter, and the son, and the mother, and the grandmother, and the grandfather, and the father, and all of that stuff. So I said, yesterday I called my mother, And I said, oh, we're really looking forward to seeing her one day and all this. I said, she comes to America regularly. I said, but I told her.
I said, I won. And she said, but the competition is tonight. I said, I know. I said, but I just told her. I said, but I don't know if I can reach her tonight after the competition. I said, I told her, I won. She says, congratulations. That's great. It was like kind of like make them all look at each other kind of, oh, Jesus. I don't know.
know if I'll be able to reach her later so I just wanted her to know I won and so it was stuff like that it was kind of all a mind fuck kind of a thing you know and just to play with their mind a little bit and Lou got all confused but like I said a lot of it was kind of show was for the pumping iron for the cameras and all that stuff and for some reason though the funny thing about it is that Lou
has never really trusted me ever again since that moment. Really? Imagine 50 years. This has been 50 years ago. I mean, next year, 50 years. And see, always, you know, we are very good friends. And, you know, we play chess together and we hang out together and we... schmooze together and have gossip sessions, go to the gym together.
But every time I say something, I say, you know, I know it's foggy today, Lou, but the sun is going to come out, I guarantee you, within the next two hours, he will go like... LAUGHTER
we kind of look around is he putting me on yeah then he looks up no I don't think so you know kind of like I don't think the sun is coming up I think you're putting me on or something so he just no matter what I say yeah you know he kind of like is always doubting it and it's always kind of questioning it you know but I mean he's a great guy and I really got to appreciate Lou because he was one of the very few bodybuilders
that was willing to work, to work his ass off. You know, not only in the gym, but I mean, also did various different jobs he had. I mean, he was a sheep metal worker, he was a welder, he was playing football up in Canada, he was trying to join a football team up there, become a football player. He went into professional wrestling and he worked his ass off there, and weightlifting.
I mean, everything that he did, and then, in the movies, you know, he played the Hulk. And he did really a great job there. And then after that gig was over, after years and years and years of the Hulk, he then became a personal trainer and he was training celebrities here in Hollywood. And he was going like from house to house. He never shied away from working.
You know, not like I'm a star now, I don't have to work. For him, the most important thing was to provide for the family and to go and to do the work. And I really loved it because I would say half of the bodybuilders are lazy bastards. The ones that I hung out with, they wanted to be on the beach. And they want to just hang out and they just want to get a tan.
And then when Franco and I started our construction business, I said, come on, guys, we need some work. I said, we just had the earthquake here in Los Angeles. We need to rebuild some of the patios and the fireplaces and the chimneys. And they would come and they would just work one direction. this direction, and then it will work. They put the bricks on it.
I said, guys, you got to turn around and do it the other way too. No, no, but the sun is coming from here. We want to get a tan. We want to get tanned today. They were just there to get a tan. Lazy bastards, right? And I said, Franco, you lazy bastards, get out of here. You know, we always did the work.
But I mean, it was, so it's great when you see a bodybuilder like Franco Colombo or like Lou Ferrigno that really were working hard. I love that. Because it's like I always say in my book, Be useful, I always say. One of the principles is work your ass off. And be useful.
Well, Franco was basically half animal, half human. So he was like no one could figure it out because he was like he had this unusual strength and these unusual abilities. like who would just hang upside down on his toes on the chin up bar? I could never hold myself with my toes. He did. It was like a gorilla.
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