Top 120 Richard Simmons Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “A kid who moves is a kid who learns.”

— Richard Simmons

102. “I’m not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.”

— Richard Simmons

103. “I’ve never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I’m like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I’m huggy and kissy.”

— Richard Simmons

104. “Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.”

— Richard Simmons

105. “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

106. “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

107. “I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.”

— Richard Simmons

108. “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

109. “I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.”

— Richard Simmons

110. “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

111. “My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.”

— Richard Simmons

112. “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

113. “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

114. “When we’re binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.”

— Richard Simmons

115. “If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.”

— Richard Simmons

116. “I’ve been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.”

— Richard Simmons

117. “Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.”

— Richard Simmons

118. “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

119. “I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.”

— Richard Simmons

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

— Richard Simmons

121. “The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.”

— Richard Simmons

122. “If I’ve got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.”

— Richard Simmons

123. “If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.”

— Richard Simmons

124. “I just love what I do, and I’m a teacher more than anything.”

— Richard Simmons

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

— Richard Simmons

126. “When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.”

— Richard Simmons

127. “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

128. “I give people permission to be kids again.”

— Richard Simmons

129. “Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.”

— Richard Simmons

130. “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.”

— Richard Simmons

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

— Richard Simmons