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.

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.

I've been very lucky in my life.

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.

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

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

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

I'm as healthy as an ox.

I've been in New York City now for 22 years.

Ilene Weiss and I went to Girls High together.

Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.