Richard Simmons famous quotes

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

#Exercise #Childhood #Trying

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Father #Book #Reading

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

#Desire #Special #Gimmicks

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

#Helping Others #Feel Good #Care

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

#Travel #Nice #Why Not

If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!
-- Richard Simmons

#Stars #Other Worlds #Wings

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Perfect #Focus #Stones

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.
-- Richard Simmons

#Years #Shoes #Legs

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Drinking #Tea #Special

There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.
-- Richard Simmons

#Thinking #House #Watches

Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
-- Richard Simmons

#Lying #Order #Oysters

What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.
-- Richard Simmons

#Running #Attitude #Exercise

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

#Happiness #Believe #Feelings

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.
-- Richard Simmons

#Thinking #Trying #Needs

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

#Laughing #Lifetime

If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.
-- Richard Simmons

#Class #Want #Middle

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Fitness #Children #Blood

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Past #People #Forgiving

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Exercise #Years #People

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Moving #Love You #Years

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Two #Numbers #Healthy

Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.
-- Richard Simmons

#Sleep #Night #Eight

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Nice #Inspire #Important

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

#Fun #Issues #People

I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.
-- Richard Simmons

#Children #School #Active

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Children #Kids #Blood

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Stupid #Moving #Long

It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].
-- Richard Simmons

#Dream #Growing Up #Teaching

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.
-- Richard Simmons

#Emotional #Who I Am #People

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Workout #Healthy #Body

For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.
-- Richard Simmons

#Workout #Prayer #Blessing

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

#Real #Pride #Longevity

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

#Giving #Parent

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!
-- Richard Simmons

#Home #Giving #Parent

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
-- Richard Simmons

#Morning #Blessing #Soul

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Weight #Pills #Desperate

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Moving #Love You #Body

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.
-- Richard Simmons

#Museums #House #Dolls

I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
-- Richard Simmons

#Two #People #Say Anything

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Wind #Laughing #Done

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.
-- Richard Simmons

#Feel Better #Trying #Stop Trying

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Country #Children #Usa

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Differences #Oatmeal #Brain

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Dog #Islands #Ice Cream

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.
-- Richard Simmons

#Passion #Class #Fans

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.
-- Richard Simmons

#Cheer #Phones #Years

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.'
-- Richard Simmons

#Thinking #Work Out #People

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#People #Trying #Needs

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Cake #Way #Faces

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Gay #People #Supportive

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.
-- Richard Simmons

#Eerie #Childhood

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

#Play #Theater

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

#Fun #Nice #Issues

People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'
-- Richard Simmons

#Jesus #People #Want

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Thinking #Parent #Needs

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Real #People #Laughing

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.
-- Richard Simmons

#Fun #Coffee #School

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

#Sides #Radio #Moments

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

#Hard Work #Care #Fine

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Dream #Silly #Kids

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Real #Loss #Pride

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.
-- Richard Simmons

#Sleep #Deprivation #Caffeine

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
-- Richard Simmons

#Children #Taken #America

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!
-- Richard Simmons

#Doe #Magazines #Weight

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.
-- Richard Simmons

#Children #Knowing #People