Richard Simmons Quotes

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

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.

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

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

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

I give people permission to be kids again.

Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.

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

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.

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.

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.

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

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.

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

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.

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

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

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

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it. You can't buy it, you can't rent it. You have to earn it. My formula has always been love yourself, move your body, watch your portions. And it sounds so easy, but it is not.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.

I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.

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

Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

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.

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.

If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

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

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

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.

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.

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.

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

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

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

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

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

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

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

I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

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

I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.