You Will Never Look At Life The Same Arnold Schwarzenegger

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i

hate plan b

because we have so many

doubters we have so many of those people

that say no and you can’t do it it’s

impossible

but when you start doubting yourself

that’s very dangerous because now what

you’re basically saying is is that if my

plan doesn’t work

i have a fallback plan i have a plan b

and that means that you start thinking

about plan b and every thought that you

put into plan b

you’re taking away now that thought and

that energy from plan a

we function better if there

is no safety net because plan

b becomes a safety net it says that if i

fail

then i fall and i get picked up and i

have something else there that was

that will protect me and that’s not good

because people perform better when

there’s no

safety net people perform better

in sports and everything else if you

don’t have a plan b

i’m telling you i’ve never ever

had a plan b i say i made a full

commitment that i’m gonna go and be a

bodybuilding champion

i made a full commitment that i’m gonna

be in america i made a full commitment

that i’m gonna get in the show business

and i’m going to be a leading man no

matter what it takes i will do the work

i would do the work over and over and

over

until i get it what is if i fail then i

don’t have

anything else well let me tell you

something don’t be afraid of

failing because there’s nothing wrong

with failing

you have to fail in order to climb that

ladder

there’s no one that doesn’t fail

michael jordan said in one of his

interviews

when they said you’re unbelievable

you’re the greatest basketball player of

all times

i mean tell me about that and he says

well you’re just mentioning the

successes

but it says for me to become the

greatest basketball player

i missed 9 000 shots

when i was playing basketball at the nba

games

so during this games that he was so

successful

he missed 9 000 shots

does it make him a failure no he’s one

of the greatest basketball players of

all times but he

failed nine thousand times you get it

we all fail it’s okay

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what is not the case that when you fail

you stay down

whoever stays down is a loser

and winners will fail and get up

fail and get up fail and get up you

always get up

that is a winner

that is a winner

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we all lose we all have lost us this is

okay and this is why i say

don’t be worried about losing because

when you’re afraid of losing then you

get frozen

you get stiff you’re not relaxed you’ve

got to be in order to perform well

in anything if it’s in boxing or if it

is on your job or with your thinking

is only happening when you relax

so relax it’s okay to fail

let’s just go all out and give it

everything that you got

that’s what it is all about so don’t be

afraid to fail

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every day we are benefiting from someone

helping us

that’s why i said earlier there is no

such thing as a self-made man

i mean when you think about it you’re

born and you need your parents to raise

you

you need your teachers to teach you you

need your coaches to do sports

out of the thousands and thousands of

people that helped me

harvard bosek was one of them that

helped me to translate into english so i

could fill out my entry form for the mr

universe contest

and then he flew with me to london to

the mr universe contest

he was an extraordinary friend that took

thousands and thousands of pictures

since then and helped me and every one

of the competitions and everything was a

huge supporter but this is the kind of

people that you need

we need help we need help

i remember that everything i did always

needed help think about it when

someone says arnold is the greatest

self-made man

i said you can call me anything you want

you can call me arnie

you can call me schwarze you can call me

terminator you can call me

governator but don’t ever call me

self-made man

i said because i did not get to that

point by myself

i mean think about just to be successful

in the movies

how are you how are you going to be

successful in the movies without having

an

audience the only one that makes you

successful in the movie

is the people that go to see the movie

so how can you say to yourself

made men when you need millions and

millions and millions of people all over

the world to go and see your movie so

people then the press looks it and says

this guy has a big box of his success

it’s the people it’s you

you can only feel complete as a person

if you think about what can you do for

your

fellow member around you that maybe

needs help

i felt like that everyone has a

different motivation

why you get into that i i was an

immigrant going to america

and they saw how america was the most

generous country in the world i mean

they opened up their arms to me they

helped me they invited me for

thanksgiving dinner the people

they helped me that’s all that first

hand this generosity in america

and i said to myself as an immigrant

that is being embraced with open arms

that i need to go and make sure that i

give something back

because i said i started thinking about

how did america become such a great

country

how did america become such a generous

country

well i look back in history and i

realized that people have fought

for america and people have died for

america

and people have suffered for america and

so it’s my job now

to contribute to keep it as being the

number one country in the world

and this is when i started feeling

obligated and i said to myself so what

can i do

i’m a bodybuilder what can i do well

then i realized

when there’s those special olympics that

i can help

and train special olympians and so we

started getting involved in special

olympics and in no time

i proposed to them to start powerlifting

in special olympics

to have deadlift which was a safe thing

to do

and to have bench press which was a safe

thing to do

and it became the number one

sports in special olympics powerlifting

they always have a packed hall

of five thousand people and i became the

national trainer

and the international trainer of special

olympics

and i tell you i felt so good

i felt better than winning a

bodybuilding competition

going to one of their competitions and

seeing a hundred of those athletes from

all over the world competing in

powerlifting

and being happy and being included in

being felt

that they’re equal to all of us it was

the most unbelievable feeling and this

is why i got

so excited about it that then after that

i started you know going around to

military bases in america

and training our military personnel

because in those days bodybuilding and

weight training wasn’t popular

now it is now when you go to iraq to

back

that or something like that and you see

the american soldiers train they have

the biggest facilities it’s like this

this dome here

this is how big the facility the

training facilities are now so it all

changed but in those days the

day wasn’t popular at all so i went from

military base to military base

to train the soldiers and the sailors

and the airmen and all of them

the more i got into that the more i

realized how good it feels to give

something back

and that’s when my idea came about about

after school programs

because after school when i traveled to

all the schools to train

the students i saw there was a huge

gathering of students after the school

was over outside the school

and i asked the school principal what

are all the students doing and he said

to me

arnold you have to understand that 70

that the kids in our schools they come

from

parents where 70 of the parents are both

working

so therefore there’s no one there

picking them up so that’s got me the

idea to start

after school programs to keep those kids

in school while the parents are working

and to offer them homework assistance

tutoring sports and fitness programs in

arts programs music

and painting and so on and it became a

huge success

so as you know it becomes addictive so

it becomes addictive

so then when of course when they became

very successful now we have after-school

programs all over the united states

then of course when uh 2003 happened

where there was a governor’s race in

california i said to myself now is my

chance to jump in there

and to really give everything and people

said to me he says are you crazy to run

for governor when you’re governor

he says you cannot go and make movies

anymore i mean i know that

that he can’t run the state and make

movies of course not

he says well you would lose all these

millions of dollars

i mean you’re getting 20 25 30 million

dollars a movie you will lose that

let’s say i don’t care i say all the

money that i made

is because of america my success is

because of america

everything that i’ve accomplished is

because of america so for me now to give

something back

for seven years and not to make money

makes no difference to me i say i’m

gonna do it

and i jumped in the end of the race and

did it and let me tell you something

i’m not poor because those seven years i

didn’t get paid

i’m perfectly fine and it made me feel

good that i could give gap

give back to america

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