Joe Gold Quotations

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

I was very fortunate to live in this time when bodybuilding was embraced by Hollywood, embraced by doctors, embraced by the world.

Between the wars, I was basically a beach bum, and I wanted to find a way to work but not work, so I joined the merchant marines.

I used to have a lot of fun at Gold's.

These are probably some of the rarest cells in the world.

You can work a few months out of the year and make good money. Then you can loaf the rest of the year, play on the beach, work out and have fun.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

I've been very lucky in my life.

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.