Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Sara Cox - Page 2

Who would think the Sara Cox of the '90s would be so bang into long johns?

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

Your 20s are for partying, your 30s - if you choose to have kids or are lucky enough to have them - are when you give yourself over to childcare, and then in your 40s it just becomes about you a bit more.

I'm always painted as a party girl, which was true for my 20s. It's taken a long time to shake off that gobby, in-your-face image. I'm actually quite chilled out.

On telly, if it's not the right kind of show, I revert back to my 'Girlie Show' persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I'm not actually like that, I'm actually quite - not clever, but smart with my words.

I just like feeling good; I love the gym, I love running, I've taken riding lessons - I've got three kids, so I have a good reason to keep fit and stay healthy. Although I'm not an angel and I do love eating well!

When I turned 40, I noticed I couldn't read the label on the back of a jar of food - it turned to be the result of presbyopia where the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus on near objects due to age. So now I wear multifocal contact lenses - and they've been a real blessing.

I'm quite laidback.

If I don't have my 1-Day Acuvue Moist Brand Multifocal contact lenses in, I simply don't feel as confident.

There isn't really a typical day in my life, I kind of wish there was, but it always starts too early, there are always lots of children running around, normally my own and not just random children, and there'll be the routine of the school run and walking the dog to start the day.

I don't want to upset my husband but I don't really like people who are too handsome.

When I've got friends who are about to turn 40, I'm like: 'Babe, you're gonna love it, it's the best!'

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

I'm always trying to get back towards some sort of farm-type life.

I like hip-hop, I like a lot of dance music. If it's got drums in it.

I'm really quite girly.

Animals are good for teaching children about the circle of life.

I recommend to any women just to find a gym that's got proper women there; lots of mums and lots of regular shaped women.

I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.

I loved 'Cagney and Lacey;' they were absolutely awesome.

To be honest I see myself as a broadcaster, I'm just on the radio a lot. So I don't really feel like I'm getting papped on the school run with my belly in.

I really love 'Broad City' and Lena Dunham's 'Girls,' which I missed when it was first on years ago.

You've just got to give yourself a break sometimes.

I'm at work every day, I hold my life together - I'm not exactly waking up in the gutter.

My girl mates are my minders. They stop people kissing me in clubs.

My dad is a farmer, so I used to love watching 'All Creatures Great and Small' - that's where I got most of my death and drama.

I try to eat 'real' food as much as I can; often I'll shove a load of ingredients - spinach, an apple or whatever's knocking about - in my NutriBullet. Nothing beats a bit of buttery toast though! I think a little bit of what you fancy does you good.

I can't go to the gym and sit on those machines - I'm medically unable to run because I'm just that wonky all over. I'd love to be a runner but I'm no good.

I do like my little smoothie in the morning with a bit of spinach, a bit of Manuka honey and some frozen fruit.

I try to look after my voice. I am very aware that if I am going to be doing a voice over the next day or on the radio, not to go out to a really noisy place or shout.

I would get fit after having each of my children but it was always slightly tainted with guilt because I would feel guilty if they were with a nanny or at nursery while I was working out.

I don't think your twenties are for fitness, but when I got to my thirties I started to get fit.

Like most people, I'm on my phone a lot during the day, there are always work emails coming in or emails persuading me to buy more shoes. Honestly, I'm probably on my phone a bit too much. I'm addicted to Twitter and Instagram.

I go to body combat classes. There's something very tribal about being in a room with 30 other women punching and kicking!

Radio 2 feels like I'm still at the pub with all my friends but now my father-in-law has joined the table. But I love it. If I was a stick of rock I'd have BBC written through me.

I think my peak 90s moment was posing on a Harley-Davidson outside the Met Bar with Wyclef Jean.

God, I hate the whole ladette thing. The more distance I get and look back at my party days, the more I'm kinda pleased I did it because it's the last thing I'd want to do now.

Life is enhanced so much by dogs. When your kids get to an age where they don't want to cuddle you as much and you have to force them into a judo hold to get affection, you've got dogs for that.

I don't really trust people who don't like dogs. We always had dogs on the farm I grew up on near Bolton.

I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field.

People expect you to be with stars like Beyoncé. Obviously she's amazing, but you can't get starstruck as there's too much build-up to it. It's like, 'Clear the corridor so she can walk down it!' And she's like some fembot. There's too much faff and you end up thinking, 'Who cares?' If I was chatting to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about chickens I'd be much more excited, as I love him.

People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.

The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.

I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.

I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

My most smelly job was at a kennels and cattery, and I basically spent all day scooping poop.