Richard Simmons Quotes

I give people permission to be kids again.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.