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a box-office disappointment he had just made with Jeff
Bridges and Sally Field. I was a sports columnist for
the Tucson Citizen at the time, and my assignment was
to spend a full day, one-on-one, with Arnold and write a
feature story about him for our newspaper’s Sunday
magazine.
I, too, had no idea who he was, or who he was going
to become. I agreed to spend the day with him because I
had to—it was an assignment. And although I took to it
with an uninspired attitude, it was one I’d never forget.
Perhaps the most memorable part of that day with
Schwarzenegger occurred when we took an hour for
lunch. I had my reporter’s notebook out and was asking
questions for the story while we ate. At one point I ca-
sually asked him, “Now that you have retired from body-
building, what are you going to do next?”
And with a voice as calm as if he were telling me
about some mundane travel plans, he said, “I’m going to
be the number-one box-office star in all of Hollywood.”
Mind you, this was not the slim, aerobic Arnold we
know today. This man was pumped up and huge. And so
for my own physical sense of well-being, I tried to ap-
pear to find his goal reasonable.
I tried not to show my shock and amusement at his
plan. After all, his first attempt at movies didn’t prom-
ise much. And his Austrian accent and awkward mon-
strous build didn’t suggest instant acceptance by movie
audiences. I finally managed to match his calm de-
meanor, and I asked him just how he planned to become
Hollywood’s top star.
“It’s the same process I used in bodybuilding,” he
explained. “What you do is create a vision of who you
want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were
already true.”