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" When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better. "

Richard Simmons

Care

Education

Focus

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" 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. "

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

" 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

People

Lost

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" A kid who moves is a kid who learns. "

" 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

Walk

Know

" 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. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you. "

Richard Simmons

You

Work

" Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing. "

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

Richard Simmons

Back

Talk

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" There are sacrifices you have to make. I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people. "

" Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE. "

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

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

" Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. "

" Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine. "