Cesar Millan

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.

I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way.

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.

Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.

Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it.

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it's not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.

'The Dog Whisperer' to me is a show that had a passion, and it helped me save relationships.