My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

Politics aside, you look at Barack Obama, he is ripped.

My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'

When you think of 'Biggest Loser,' you think of it as a TV show. But people are coming to lose weight. I take that very seriously.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.

Let's just say I believe in healthy love.

When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.

You just are born the way that you're born.

I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.

If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

You can dramatically affect the expression of your metabolism and your biochemistry by the way you eat and the way you live.

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.

That's what's beautiful about sports in general is you give someone a bat, a ball, a piece of sporting equipment and what it does to help them just be better people, 'to get out of whatever situation they might be in temporarily for that moment, to be whoever they want to be.

My father is a first-generation Mexican-American and sports changed his life. It allowed him to basically live his dream, but it was only because he was given the opportunity by one person.

Instead of just being the person that's like: 'Gosh, that's cool that people are doing stuff and good luck. Do you need me to write a check? I can do that,' I've always just been very hands-on.