Now, I know this is a speech about the environment, but let me first talk about bodybuilding, which is another passion of mine -- (laughter) -- because bodybuilding used to have a very sketchy image, as you know. And as a matter of fact, there were a lot of people that were working out in the old days; they never admitted that they were working out because they didn't want to be associated with that sport. As a matter of fact, a lot of the big Hollywood celebrities -- Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Kirk Douglas -- they all were working out with weights, but they never would publicly acknowledge it because they didn't want to be associated with the gymnasiums that were like dungeons for weirdos and for fanatics and so on.
So we knew that we had to change the image, and we did. We consciously changed the image. The book came out, "Pumping Iron," and the movie, the documentary of "Pumping Iron" came out. And I started writing books on bodybuilding for men and for women and for children and all this and started promoting and promoting.
Eventually the image of bodybuilding changed, that now you literally can go anywhere in the world and you will find a gymnasium. As a matter of fact, you can go to any gymnasium and you will find ordinary people talking about their lats and their biceps and their abs and their body fat and all those kind of things.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor
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