Top 120 Richard Simmons Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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!”

— Richard Simmons

53. “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

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

— Richard Simmons

55. “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.”

— Richard Simmons

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “I’ve been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.”

— Richard Simmons

60. “Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.”

— Richard Simmons

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I’d bring the money home to my parents and say, “This is just the beginning.””

— Richard Simmons

64. “I don’t have to teach anymore, I don’t have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.”

— Richard Simmons

65. “Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.”

— Richard Simmons

66. “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

67. “I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.”

— Richard Simmons

68. “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

69. “Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.”

— Richard Simmons

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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.”

— Richard Simmons

75. “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

76. “Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don’t particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.”

— Richard Simmons

77. “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

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

— Richard Simmons

79. “After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don’t see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.”

— Richard Simmons

80. “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

81. “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

82. “I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I’m living right now.”

— Richard Simmons

83. “One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you’ve changed your life by saying, “Farewell to Fat”.”

— Richard Simmons

84. “My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.”

— Richard Simmons

85. “When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It’s exciting!”

— Richard Simmons

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “Well mine is not gimmicky – it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.”

— Richard Simmons

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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.”

— Richard Simmons

96. “Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.”

— Richard Simmons

97. “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

98. “I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.”

— Richard Simmons

99. “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

100. “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