Eric Ripert Quotes

My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.

You can have a soda every once in awhile, but don't drink a gallon of it a day.

Ultimately, I didn't look at 'The Biggest Loser' as being my defining moment. I wasn't there to compete and win the money. I wasn't there to win 'The Biggest Loser.' I was there for my health.

I honestly think there shouldn't be sugared drinks. All my grandchildren drink water all through the day. I've just had them to stay, and at breakfast, they have water. They don't even know what sugary drinks are.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

Your hair loves it; everything loves water, you know. So I don't drink soda. I don't drink the devil's juice. Everyone knows what I mean when I say that. I don't drink no alcohol, never!

Personally, I just want to stay healthy.

I'm trying to live until I'm at least 65 or 70, so I might as well try and stay healthy until at least that long.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.