Top 55 Sara Cox Quotes

On one trip to the south of France, when I was just pregnant with Isaac, I got a horrendous stomach upset and the whole holiday was a washout. I had to go and have blood tests and my poor other half had to look after Lola because I was so ill.

The ladette thing, it’s all a bit weird. I never really liked the word as it suggested we wanted to be men. We didn’t.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

When I was working for Radio 1 in Ibiza I stayed in a horrible place with a tiny window and really noisy air conditioning – the last thing you need in Ibiza, where you’re often a little bit the worse for wear at the end of the night.

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

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

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

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!

I’ve always loved horses.

If I go to heaven, I’d like Phillip and Fern or Richard and Judy – if they die first – to be waiting for me with a big plate of pork pies with piccalilli. A comforting thought.

I’ve always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.

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

My favourite organic recipe is probably a huge batch of chilli con carne cooked with organic low fat British minced beef, tons of kidney beans, tomatoes and baked beans.

My food villain is salt. I’d love to be have the odd ready meal as a lazy treat, but some contain 33% of your salt intake! i just cant do it to myself!

It would come as quite a shock to my younger self that my first job was modelling. I was scouted, aged 18, when I went to Paris to visit my older sister, Yvonne, who was at uni there.

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

It sometimes takes me a fortnight to unpack. I find it so depressing. A bit of sand will come out of a shoe and it’ll just take me back to where we were: lovely and relaxed on holiday.

I don’t find the early mornings difficult.

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.

I’m sure Zoe Ball and Donna Air, and Nic and Nat Appleton – we’ll go to the grave with our ’90s secrets.

I try not to buy pork pies but sometimes I fail.

I’m not really into getting bunches of flowers if I’m a bit under the weather, I’d rather have something to eat.

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

My main issue is trying to create shape, because I am like an upturned spring onion. I am bulbous at the top, then I sort of whittle away, and my feet are like the green bits. I try to create – with clever use of a skirt and tucked-in top – a waist and hips.

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

There’s always someone waiting to take your job so you’ve got to crack on and do your best.

I love finding out how authors work, because it can either go full Carrie in ‘Homeland,’ with loads of Post-it Notes and string on the wall and they know everything that’s happening in the plot – or they let the characters tell them where they want to go and what happens next.

I’m a huge fan of reading.

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 love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.

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 was very nervous interviewing Genesis on Radio 2. I felt out of my depth and somebody tweeted afterwards: Sara Cox interviewing Genesis – what a waste. I was crushed, because I kind of knew it was true.

In the days before I had kids I used to take six books with me for a fortnight’s holiday. My suitcase used to be full of big trashy novels, maybe a bikini and some flip-flops. It was all I needed.

I’m really good at turning off lights, it’s a working-class thing.

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 tried going veggie once, but it lasted about four hours.

I’ve started cycling everywhere on my electric bike; it’s the best decision I ever made. Best part? The bike does some of the work for you!

I try to avoid showbusiness parties.

My brain is always whizzing around with worries: could I have done an interview better? Have I prepared enough for the next one? If it’s really bad, I’ll listen to an audiobook or use the Headspace app, and then my brain usually goes back to sleep.

Visualisation is the future of radio.

I like skinny jeans with Nikes or brogues.

I’m obsessed with the BBC comedy ‘Mum.’

I’m never fake on air.

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 love doing ‘The Breakfast Show,’ I like waking up with people and it will be hard to stop.

I do sometimes joke that I’m Tarzan and Ben’s Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there’s dead things in the garden.

I think I am quite a morning person naturally, I think it may be breakfast radio that has made me be like that.

I’m quite laidback.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a vet. My four older siblings and I grew up on my dad’s beef farm near Bolton, and I loved all our animals.

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 don’t fit into the yummy mummy box, I’m not a party girl anymore, I’m just me.

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.

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