Richard Simmons Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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

  Richard Simmons

  School, Recess, Right Now

  "Richard Simmons Obesity Crusade" by Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. October 15, 2008.

• I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, School, Physically Active

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• 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

  Home, School, Eight

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.

  Richard Simmons

  Girl, School, Self Worth

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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