there's a lot to be said for someone who can maintain their own integrity (an oft bandied around word but few have a clue what it means apparently) and still be a champion.
arnold played the game and he knew how. he used schmoe weider for what he could do for him (brought him to usa, got him settled, exposure, pay check) but it was evident that arnold had little real respect for the man. he knew what schmoe was doing (eliminating his golden boy's competition - serge, sergio, etc) and even though he knew that there was little he could do about it, i feel arnold resented it as first and foremost arnold is a competitor. he really desired to be the best in the world and he wanted to
prove it in battle so to speak. a person like schmoe didn't understand the nature of the athlete as he himself was such a failure in this endeavour. indeed, the only thing schmoe was good at was opportunism and making his fortune completely off the back of real athletes. ben was even worse, he had no interest whatsoever in bodybuilding or bodybuilders, he was simply attempting to live out his longstanding fantasy of emulating napoleon.
why is it that these schmoes have such a lust for powerful men but in their own pathetic reality they are the opposite
