Richard Simmons Quotes

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

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Hope, Lifetime, Laugh

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

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Schools, Recesses

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in Childhood

• People treat me like family, ’cause I’ve always treated them like family.

  Richard Simmons

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Treat

• 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

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  Tags in Number, Formula

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

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Special, Desire

• If your oxygen mask drops down, it’s time to take a breather!

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Oxygen, Breathe

• A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Kid, Learns

• I consider myself a court jester.

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Consider

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Others, High

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

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in People, Call, Talk

• 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

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  Tags in Play, Same, Act

• 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

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  Tags in Heart, Crazy, Deep

• I started my own class for people like me who can’t find any place else to go.

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Find, Place

• I’ve never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in World, Lived

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Enough, Walk

• It’s not nice to make fun of people with issues.

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Nice, Fun, Issues

• You shouldn’t make fun of people who have issues.

  Richard Simmons

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  Tags in Fun, Issues

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lose, Hear, Drink

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Year, Body

Richard Simmons (30)

Birth:	12th July, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Physician

About

Milton Teagle Simmons, known professionally as Richard Simmons, is an American former actor and now fitness personality, who promotes weight-loss programs, prominently through his Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos and is known for his eccentric, outgoing and frequently flamboyant personality.

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