Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

- Phil McGraw

I'm not a politician.

- Phil McGraw

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

- Phil McGraw

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

- Phil McGraw

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

- Phil McGraw

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

- Phil McGraw

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

- Phil McGraw

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

- Phil McGraw

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

- Phil McGraw

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

- Phil McGraw

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

- Phil McGraw

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

- Phil McGraw

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.

- Phil McGraw

Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

- Phil McGraw

Awareness without action is worthless.

- Phil McGraw

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

- Phil McGraw

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

- Phil McGraw

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

- Phil McGraw

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.

- Phil McGraw

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

- Phil McGraw