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" Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. "

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" I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking. "

" No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. "

" You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them. "

" I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. "

" The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. "

" I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone. "

" You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you. "

" You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life. "

" Medicine has always been my calling. "

" I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself. "

" I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. "

" I get up at the same time every morning. "

" I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. "

" I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. "

" Biology always beats will power. "

" I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. "

" I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband. "

" The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. "

" Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. "

" Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. "

" We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. "

" I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. "

" You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. "

" My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' "

" What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. "

" I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. "

" Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. "

" True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal. "

" As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. "

" It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument. "