look no one gets to where you are without working out hard and being disciplined
and being having a clear vision in the drive and having the fire on the belly
and having that one power and that will power and all that stuff
so today you can celebrate every so often if the slack off like i did yesterday
you know as you get older you discover kind of more different sides of yourself
you know because when i was your age logan i only thought about being the greatest bodybuilder i
would have the biggest arms the biggest strikes the biggest stealth have the best posing routine
beat everybody and go from competition to competition with the winner and become the
greatest bodybuilder of all times but then you get older a little bit then you get you go to the next
phase and you say well i cannot do that forever what's next so then you say well you know acting
my heroes reg park and steve reeves those guys they played hercules they went from bodybuilding
into acting so i said maybe that's what i should do so i i started that and that was of course
as intense about that as it was with bodybuilding and i started you know working on it on my speech
classes and the accent removal classes acting classes english classes and all those kind of
things and uh i started working my way up until i got finally conan the barbarian and commander
and predators and i was on a roll and then you know you get the the place we always said we
have done so many movies they say you know i'm not really that excited anybody to another movie
maybe i should do something else and just at that time they had a recall election in california
to recall governor davis a total and so i said myself well here's a good opportunity i run for
two months it's not like a whole year or two years of running around for two months and then it's the
election on october 7th and so then i jumped in into doing that and uh i really enjoyed the
political life after i won and really had a great time but then you get older after that when you're
finished with that then you start your institute and you said the schwarzenegger institute and
you start getting more and more into helping other people because you know when you're young
it was all about me me then eventually as you get older it becomes more and more like
not just me me me but we we how can we all success be successful how can we all be healthy how can we
all train how can i inspire other people to train how can i write more books about training how can
i have more seminars how can i be out there when inspire millions of kids to train and to get maybe
into politics and to get into acting and to let them know that they can be successful you know
i'm i'm so sure what i'm saying is there's another side of me now that i discover which is really
caring to help other people the key thing is is i think that um you have this in you
that desire to grow or you don't because that's where it all begins you know we can
talk about the details from here generally and i think that's why i'm also sitting here today
and doing this podcast because i admire you guys thank you now i really do because i always say
to the guy everyone they said this is so great are ordinary guys from ohio that go and says
we want to be special we don't want to just be ordinary guys and we are willing to put the effort
into it we are willing to make the sacrifices we're willing to fight for it and to go and work
for it and train for it and do all this kind of stuff and which takes hours and hours and hours
every day and discipline those stuff and you guys don't just talk about it you do it and so i i was
it's so refreshing to have guys like this come on the scene especially the day with the social media
and with the way things work uh to kind of to do things in a different way than everyone else and
it's nuts man but you see this is the important thing to inspire people and to let them know
anything is possible and i'm talking about not just people in hollywood but i want to reach
to that little village in poland that little village in ukraine in russia in china in africa
in the middle east but the poorest of the poorest people is if they can watch this and they see
ordinary folks can make it you know i want to inspire those people there and say you can do
it just have a vision and have the will and just chase your vision that is the most important thing
you can do it look at me i come from a little austrian village there was a population of 800.
everyone said to me all the time forget it you would never make it but then i saw reg park
in the movies and then all of a sudden i got inspired you know so i had kind of i had a way
of looking at the world and through the movies and i got inspired and this is what we're doing here
today it's inspiring people come out and watch it look at logan look at his brother look at so many
people look at muhammad ali look at mike tyson these are people that came from nothing and they
worked their way up and it became something you know it can't be done so this is what it's all
about is inspiring everybody i think that uh we don't operate well if we don't have a mission
there if you don't have a specific vision and a specific goal because then you have something
to shoot for i mean look every single airplane that takes off knows where they're going yeah
imagine you have the most sophisticated airplane in the world and it takes off and there's nowhere
to go right it's not going to have a successful mission no matter what and so this is why it
is so important to have a mission to have a specific goal because then every rep that you do
every workout that you do will get you one step closer to that goal and you know why you're doing
you never ask yourself at six in the morning why the hell am i doing another 500 sit-ups
why am i getting up at five in the morning go to the gym you know why yeah i mean i always knew
that for every rep i did every set i did every squat i did every bench press i did everything i
did every leg raise i did was to get one step closer to becoming the world champion
in bodybuilding and it felt good and i had a good time doing it and i was smiling in the gym doing
it rather than like other guys that had this kind of a clamped face you know they say it's the same
mystery training training is part of my life it's that simple nothing will ever change until i die
i will be working out and i will be having a great time in the gym and i will be getting the pump and
i uh and i want to feel good you know and like i said it's tough enough it as it is when you
get older but you have to hold on as much as you can and you have to still watch what you eat and
all of this kind of things that it's so good no cream puffs you know what's the greatest thing
greatest thing is not a green puffs but that is great too
but that we are in america think about this for a second huh you know people we be know that we have
there's a disarray right i mean the democrats and republicans don't get along and there's the
fighting on capitol hill and you know not much is getting done and off this kind of things
but one should never ever forget that we are still in the greatest country in the world right
because when i go overseas people are still the day just like 20 years ago and 50 years ago
come up new says can you help me get to america can you help me get to california i want to get
over there it's the greatest place there's nowhere else i want to go they don't ask me to go to china
they didn't ask me to go to australia they didn't ask me to go can you help us go to
the middle east or to africa no they asked me to come to america as i said i remember when i came
to this state that was the same thing you know there was that the major major problems in america
there was 1968 where the big demonstration said with the democratic convention in chicago and
there was the vietnam war uh then there was you know afterwards it was watergate and there was all
kinds of of problems that we had in america but i still said this is the best place in the world
and so no matter how bad we do it's still the best place to remember that california i think that the
the key thing is is that we know you can look at california also in a positive way and this is that
it is the fifth largest economy in the world so we're not only number one economically in america
by having the greatest gdp of 3.3 trillion dollars or whatever so this is for a state
really extraordinary so yes we have our problems but it is a true it's a joke
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