Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about being in awe of Wilt Chamberlain's strength

[D.Brasco]

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[SlimShady83]

[Blame Rasho]

Wilt was an all time physical marvel. I just laugh at the idea of guys like Andre and Wilt together and likely crouching under a standard door to get out of a restaurant.

[Black Jack]

Built different!

[MavsDirk41]

Get to da chopper

[D.Brasco]

Built different!

[Djoker]

^ Arnold looks like a midget next to these guys. Saw the pic before but still crazy!

[Memories]

Even by today’s standards, Wilt would be the most freakish athlete in the NBA today. Ridiculously strong, very fast (helps due to him being a track runner), huge body, long arms, BIG hands.

The only thing more dangerous than him on the court in today’s NBA, would have been him OFF THE COURT with social media and dating apps. Dude would probably legit have had sex with over 10K women today.

[Ritzo]

Arnold looks like if Wilt and Andre had a baby

[70sFan]

People don't realize that Wilt made Shaq look small when they met, he was enormous human being.

[Sign5]

People don't realize that Wilt made Shaq look small when they met, he was enormous human being.

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Shaq, widely known as the big diesel, the most dominant player ever gets pulled in like a child and he looks at Wilt like 'is this dude even human, wtf?'


On top of that look at how wide his shoulders are compared to Shaq (who again was a massive man himself).

This was Wilt at 56 years of age BTW. Truly the greatest specimen we've ever seen.

[UcanUwill]

^ Arnold looks like a midget next to these guys. Saw the pic before but still crazy!

Yeah, thats wild. Arnold used to be face (probably still is) of Strongmen world championship. Beside Basketball, we Lithuanians are just randomly also very good at strongmen competitions, and we used to have this guy Žydrūnas Savickas, Big Z, who was worlds strongest man at a time, around 10-15 years ago. Žydrūnas wasn't very tall, around 6'3 or 6'4, but he was super massive as you could imagine and he met Arnold many times, and Arnold looks tiny next to him. I remember some 140 pound dude interviewing Žydrūnas and asking about Arnold and his stature, character, And Žydrūnas says that from his perspective, Arnold is as tiny as the reporter, great guy, but tiny man to Žydrūnas Savickas. So there is always levels to this, funny to think that to these men like Wilt, Andre, all people must have looked like children.

P.S. I know nothing of lift weighting, but if strongest guys do 120 pounds there, I imagined Wilt would probably do even moee than 150-170. That man was way beyond even the strongest regular men. Sadly, never got a chance to watch him play, two strongest players I have ever seen myself were Shag and Sofoklis, the next guy would be a very very distant third.

[-Luke-]

People don't realize that Wilt made Shaq look small when they met, he was enormous human being.

Watch on YouTube

Shaq, widely known as the big diesel, the most dominant player ever gets pulled in like a child and he looks at Wilt like 'is this dude even human, wtf?'


On top of that look at how wide his shoulders are compared to Shaq (who again was a massive man himself).

This was Wilt at 56 years of age BTW. Truly the greatest specimen we've ever seen.

If Wilt can almost dislocate the shoulder of someone like Shaq with a single handshake, he probably would have ripped out the entire arm of someone like me.

[LuDux1]

Lithuania

Arnold Schwarzenegger is visiting Lithuania during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_economic_blockade_of_Lithuania Because of gasoline rationing, he rents a bicycle. He stops by some shop and goes inside, leaving the bicycle with a paper note "Touch my bike and I will kill you. Arnold Schwarzenegger". Few minutes later he comes out - bicycle is missing, note on the other side of paper says "Catch me if you can. Gintautas Umaras"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gintautas_Umaras
Umaras achieved several world records: in 1984 he broke the record in men's 5 km individual pursuit;[4] in 1985, 1986, and 1987 – in men's 4 km individual pursuit; and in 1988 – in men's 4 km team pursuit.[5]

[UcanUwill]

Lithuania

Arnold Schwarzenegger is visiting Lithuania during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_economic_blockade_of_Lithuania Because of gasoline rationing, he rents a bicycle. He stops by some shop and goes inside, leaving the bicycle with a paper note "Touch my bike and I will kill you. Arnold Schwarzenegger". Few minutes later he comes out - bicycle is missing, note on the other side of paper says "Catch me if you can. Gintautas Umaras"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gintautas_Umaras
Umaras achieved several world records: in 1984 he broke the record in men's 5 km individual pursuit;[4] in 1985, 1986, and 1987 – in men's 4 km individual pursuit; and in 1988 – in men's 4 km team pursuit.[5]

Never heard this story. Knowing Arnolds involvement with Strongmen, he probably has a lot of ties with our country. I have no Idea if Lithuanias still good at that, my father still watches that sport, they boradcast it on Lithuania TV, and he said to me that we are still pretty good. I haven't followed it since peak Savickas days.

Arnold is one of the few people who became republican politician, but didn't lose any charm or decency or humanity. Not a huge fan of American Republican party, especially these days...

[druggas]

I'm surprised that no one is discrediting Arnold's memory.

[LuDux1]

Lithuania

Arnold Schwarzenegger is visiting Lithuania during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_economic_blockade_of_Lithuania Because of gasoline rationing, he rents a bicycle. He stops by some shop and goes inside, leaving the bicycle with a paper note "Touch my bike and I will kill you. Arnold Schwarzenegger". Few minutes later he comes out - bicycle is missing, note on the other side of paper says "Catch me if you can. Gintautas Umaras"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gintautas_Umaras
Umaras achieved several world records: in 1984 he broke the record in men's 5 km individual pursuit;[4] in 1985, 1986, and 1987 – in men's 4 km individual pursuit; and in 1988 – in men's 4 km team pursuit.[5]

Never heard this story. Knowing Arnolds involvement with Strongmen, he probably has a lot of ties with our country. I have no Idea if Lithuanias still good at that, my father still watches that sport, they boradcast it on Lithuania TV, and he said to me that we are still pretty good. I haven't followed it since peak Savickas days.

Arnold is one of the few people who became republican politician, but didn't lose any charm or decency or humanity. Not a huge fan of American Republican party, especially these days...

It's 99.999999% joke and not real story

Like this one: Brezhnev is reading opening speach of 1980 olympics: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh"

[UcanUwill]

It's 99.999999% joke and not real story

Like this one: Brezhnev is reading opening speach of 1980 olympics: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh"

I figured it was a joke, but I thought it was maybe based on some fact that Arnold was there maybe.

[-Luke-]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is visiting Lithuania during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_economic_blockade_of_Lithuania Because of gasoline rationing, he rents a bicycle. He stops by some shop and goes inside, leaving the bicycle with a paper note "Touch my bike and I will kill you. Arnold Schwarzenegger". Few minutes later he comes out - bicycle is missing, note on the other side of paper says "Catch me if you can. Gintautas Umaras"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gintautas_Umaras
Umaras achieved several world records: in 1984 he broke the record in men's 5 km individual pursuit;[4] in 1985, 1986, and 1987 – in men's 4 km individual pursuit; and in 1988 – in men's 4 km team pursuit.[5]

Never heard this story. Knowing Arnolds involvement with Strongmen, he probably has a lot of ties with our country. I have no Idea if Lithuanias still good at that, my father still watches that sport, they boradcast it on Lithuania TV, and he said to me that we are still pretty good. I haven't followed it since peak Savickas days.

Arnold is one of the few people who became republican politician, but didn't lose any charm or decency or humanity. Not a huge fan of American Republican party, especially these days...

It's 99.999999% joke and not real story

Like this one: Brezhnev is reading opening speach of 1980 olympics: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh"

Lithuania declares war on the USA. In the official declaration they write “We have 5 tanks, 5 airplanes, 10 ships and 1000 soldiers”. The USA writes back “We have 10,000 tanks, 20,000 airplanes, 20,000 ships and a million soldiers”. In response, Lithuania writes “We must withdraw our declaration of war. We don't have room for so many prisoners”.

[UcanUwill]

I'm surprised that no one is discrediting Arnold's memory.

Nothing he said would sound not believable. He has a sharp mind obviously.