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.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of 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.

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.

You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!

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.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.