Richard Simmons Quotes

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

• Exercise
• Teach
• Compulsion

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• 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
  • Exercise
  • Teach
  • Compulsion