241 Quotes by Richard Simmons

"You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me."

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

"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."

"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."

"My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."