Al Sharpton Quotes

You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.

I must cut lots of weight. Isn't nice, but it's part of my job and I can make it very easy.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I feel like I am always battling to keep my weight down.

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

There are no shortcut to losing weight. Just hard work and dedication, hard work and dedication.

Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.

By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

I'm never going to go down to 145 again.

My exercise is pall-bearin' for athletes and food faddists.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

I was a dancer until I was 19. I never had to worry about working out or what I ate. So I've really had to train myself to get down to the gym.

Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.