110+ Richard Simmons Quotes On Exercise, Energetic And Fun

Richard Simmons is an American fitness instructor, actor and comedian. He is best known for his eccentric, flamboyant personality and his weight loss and exercise videos. He is also known for his philanthropy and his support of the LGBT community. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Richard Simmons on exercise, energetic, fun.

Top 10 Richard Simmons Quotes

1. When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.
2. 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.
3. No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
4. I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
5. Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
6. 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.
7. There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.
8. I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.
9. 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!
10. 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.

Richard Simmons Short Quotes

• There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.
• I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.
• Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.
• My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
• The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.
• I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.
• Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.
• I consider myself a court jester - motivator.
• If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

Richard Simmons Quotes About Exercise

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

Richard Simmons Quotes About Fun

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

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

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me! — Richard Simmons

Richard Simmons Quotes About People

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

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. — Richard Simmons

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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

Richard Simmons Quotes About Work

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

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

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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

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

Every day you eat is every day you have to work out. — Richard Simmons

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. — Richard Simmons

When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts! — Richard Simmons

Richard Simmons Quotes About World

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

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

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

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

Richard Simmons Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much. — Richard Simmons

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

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

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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

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

I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it. — Richard Simmons

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me. — Richard Simmons

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful. — Richard Simmons

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past. — Richard Simmons

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

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies. — Richard Simmons

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. — Richard Simmons

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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

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. — Richard Simmons

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

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

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

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them. — Richard Simmons

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

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

All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting. — Richard Simmons

I give people permission to be kids again. — Richard Simmons

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

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

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me. — Richard Simmons

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

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

We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula. — Richard Simmons

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

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. — Richard Simmons

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. — Richard Simmons

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. — Richard Simmons

I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. — Richard Simmons

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

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown. — Richard Simmons

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. — Richard Simmons

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

When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight. — Richard Simmons

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much. — Richard Simmons

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

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

Life Lessons by Richard Simmons

1. Richard Simmons teaches that physical activity and exercise can be fun and enjoyable, rather than a chore.
2. He emphasizes the importance of self-care and taking the time to focus on your own health and wellbeing.
3. He encourages people to be kind to themselves and to celebrate their successes, no matter how small.