Joe Gold Quotes

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

  Joe Gold

• 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.

  Joe Gold

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

  Joe Gold

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

  Joe Gold

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

  Joe Gold

• I’ve been very lucky in my life.

  Joe Gold

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

  Joe Gold

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

  Joe Gold

• Gold’s was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

  Joe Gold

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

  Joe Gold

Joe Gold (10)

Birth:	10th March, 1922
Death:	11th July, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bodybuilder, Businessman

About

Joe Gold was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an American bodybuilder and businessman. He was the founder of Gold's Gym and World Gym. He began his interest in bodybuilding at the age of 12, when he saw his sister-in-law's design for strengthening her arms. As a machinist, he served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. In 1965, he opened the first Gold's Gym in Venice, California.

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