Ronnie Coleman Domino's pizza story

    by Freddenver: Domino's Pizza

    Ronnie Coleman shared that he relied on free Domino's pizza daily to get by before he became the greatest bodybuilder of all time. He explained, "I just came from working at Dominos I had to eat pizza everyday to survive because I wasn't making that much money." He also noted, "I had an accounting degree nobody would hire me."

    Transcript (en)

    I paid for gym membership because I just hired on there and coming from Domino's Pizza where I you know I had to eat pizza every day to survive because I didn't make that much money. By the time I got to the police department I was still struggling and trying to get back on my feet and I couldn't afford membership still. And this is when you were 24? Yeah I was 24. So you were just a big guy? Yeah I've been big and muscular my whole entire life. But regular big not like Mr. Olympia beg? Well, I would say put a picture up there that somebody took not too long ago, because when I first got into the sport of bodybuilding, I was doing security at a Mr. Olympia event, and most of the people in the audience thought that I should be on stage back then. I didn't think so, you know, but they thought that. I had 22, 23-inch arms back then. I had that was 22, 21, 22 in college. How big were they when you were at your biggest? 24. 24. That's the biggest they got. That's like a waist. Yeah, some girl. Yeah, but like a...