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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