THE "OUI" INTERVIEW
On page four, Arnold describes "psychological warfare" at its best:
What I do is make [other bodybuilders] feel great. I tell a guy that he's never looked better, that he looks brilliant, fantastic. "Your deltoids! And how did you get the tan and the proportion? I'm positive that you'll place; you'll beat Frank; I think you'll even beat Corney. You can easily beat this guy and that guy. I'm certain you'll go all the way -- to second place."
[...] If we were going through the compulsory poses -- a double-biceps pose, say -- I'd just turn to the guy next to me and say, "What a shame, what a disadvantage for you," or I'd psych him in reverse by saying that the disadvantage was mine, that he was definitely going to be the one to win. Once, I even sent a guy off-stage. He was enormous, really fantastic, and the audience was screaming for both of us, so you knew it was going to be close. After about 15 minutes of posing, I told him I thought I'd had enough and that we ought to quit, just walk off. He agreed, turned around and left and I just stayed on. The audience immediately turned against him and I won -- my first Mr. Olympia title, in 1970.
If I were Cruz Bustamante, I'd be focusing more on this passage than on the salacious ones. |
