Cole Bishop

| AZ |

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I was a bricklayer.

It was how I paid the bills when I first moved to America. Even the biggest title in bodybuilding, Mr. Olympia, only paid a thousand dollars back then. 

It makes me proud that in March, the winner of our Arnold Classic and our Arnold Classic UK took home more than a million dollars. He can focus on bodybuilding.

But in our day, that wasn’t an option. Some guys were teachers. Some sold insurance. Franco and I laid bricks.
We put an ad in the paper and sold ourselves as European craftsmen. We figured if people heard the accents, they would picture old-world masonry instead of two bodybuilders with a wheelbarrow. 

It worked. 

The phone rang. And then we had to go out and actually do the job, which was the part nobody could fake. Luckily, Franco knew what he was doing.

The work was simple. Mix the mortar. Set the brick. Tap it level. Scrape the edge. Then do it again. And again. Nobody claps for you. There is no crowd, no music, no trophy. There is just the next brick sitting there waiting for you.

You can still find some of the walls we built in Venice.
That’s where my lesson today comes from.

One brick doesn’t look like anything. Ten bricks don’t look like anything. A hundred bricks, you’re starting to see something, but it doesn’t impress anyone.

You just keep laying bricks until the job is done.

And you know what happens after four or five hours on a wall?

You are so damn tired, or you feel so great that you stop measuring.

You are not standing back every ten minutes asking how far from finished it is. You are covered in mortar, your hands are raw, you’re schvitzing, and you are happy. The work took the question away from you.

That is the part nobody tells you about hard work: It doesn’t just build the wall. It terminates the voice that keeps asking when the wall will be done.

[Barstool ASU @tempebarstool]

We won by 42 points today. 🥺

[Xin Varlock @XinNBA]

THIS is the team we all loved.

Not the garbage we see on the court this season.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Ex-NFL player Derek Wolfe kills massive mountain lion terrorizing community in Colorado.

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Man oh man, I wasn’t ready for this this morning.

Genuinely could not ask for two better brothers.

This means the world to me.

🙏🏼

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Damar Hamlin has woken up and his holding hands with his family. Amazing moment 🙏❤️

[Brooke Good @BrookeG02024834]

There is one young man that I think a lot of us are forgetting to lift up in prayer in the past 72 hours, and that is Tee Higgins of the Cincinnati Bengals. Higgins is beside himself with guilt, and has not left the hospital since Damar Hamlin arrived Monday night.

[Micah Parsons @MicahhParsons11]

Wait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah

[HasbullaHive 🐐 @HasbullaHive]

This is your sign to go to the gym today

[Derek Carr @derekcarrqb]

We eating good tonight !

[Kyle Nap @KyleNaps]

Devin Singletary running the ball on sunday

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

1PM Kirk Cousins is iced out

[HasbullaHive 🐐 @HasbullaHive]

me and the boys talking about old memories

[Mark Jackson’s Burner @casualtakeking]

Coming out to this song after being shot twice is the coldest thing in NFL history with all due respect 🥶

[Cole Bishop @dcolebishop]

Stayed in the pocket took it on the chin to complete the pass then watched the td. Smiling after getting rocked like that is crazy, gotta love it. High level play @wyatthorton_2 keep goin💯

[Wyatt Horton @WyattHorton_15]

💥 @Ducerobinson2 @GoBigBlue_PHS @gridironarizona @AZHSFB @azc_obert @azcsports @JUSTCHILLY @CodyTCameron @TreyAndersonQB @EricSports360AZ @PrincipalCSmith

[Lina Washington @LWashingtonTV]

“it’s not on one f*cking guy.”

NSFW: Cardinals veteran offensive lineman Justin Pugh steps in to defend kicker Matt Ammendola, who missed the game-tying field goal against the Eagles @12News @12SportsAZ

[Bobby Football @Rob__Paul]

Anybody else think Jameis Winston and Andy Dalton would be perfect in a buddy cop show about two Americans who are working a case in London but have zero understanding of the British culture

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

Dolphins doing Tua concussion test https://t.co/0S5nGBh6vh