Top 168 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Simmons

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

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

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.

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.'

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.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God's motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

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

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.

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.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

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

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

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

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

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

I'll tell you who makes me laugh, in a good way, and I'd love to have a date with her: if I could just have a salad with Lady Gaga? This would be my - I would almost probably faint.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

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

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

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.

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

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

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.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.

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

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 could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

I think it is very important that you like yourself for who you are and not want to look like anyone else. You also have to understand, many people have had cosmetic surgeries in order to look the way they look. So why look like them when you can just look like you? And there is nothing wrong with looking like you.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

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.

Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

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

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

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.