A biography for Phil McGrawhasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.”
“Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?”
“You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.”
“Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.”
“At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.”
“I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”
“I just am not good at math.”
“Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.”
“Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.”
“There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.”
“My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.”
“What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.”
“You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.”
“Awareness without action is worthless.”
“If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.”
“We teach people how to treat us.”
“Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.”
“You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.”
“I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.”
“Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.”