I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

The only regret I have is that I couldn't teach you a lesson in humanity and humility. A mother should not depend on his son and that's the one mistake I committed.

Forgive me, joy, if I blasphemed youbefore I learned to love.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest.

Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.