Quotes About Fitness

I want to see more sports in schools.

You can't score if you can't run.

Sometimes, if a striker is not scoring as many goals, they can still be in good form.

No matter where it is or who it's against, I will always be available for Scotland as long as I am fit.

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!

As long as I'm in good physical shape, that's a passion for me, to be physically fit. That's the main thing now, the look is secondary. But I think I look OK, not too bad for a 55 year old.

There are days when I don't count sets at all, but then there are some days when I have to realize that I don't want to overwork because I still have an hour of cardio ahead of me or another training session later that day.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

I believe I owe it to my body to keep it supple and fit.

I would work all day and then go the gym in the evening. I owed it to myself to take care of myself.

Once I was asked to do celebrity rowing, where they taught people who had been to Oxford or Cambridge to row against each other. That sounded like too much hard work: really early mornings and having to be quite fit, which I'm not.

Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

I would not be able to keep going at the pace that I do if I had continued at the weight that I was. I feel so much better; I eat better. I sleep better. I actually enjoy exercise.

Shankar Basu introduced me to a different type of training that eventually helped me increase my pace. That, in turn, went on to help me bowl at the death, too.

Try to walk into the gym with the mindset that you're going to do a different thing every day. Whether that means a new exercise, a new order for your routine, a new pace, or more resistance, your body will help you get out of that rut.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.

I pack on mass quickly when I lift.

When I get time after pack up, I try hitting the gym or go for a jog.

I only have a family pack; never really felt the need for abs or something like that because, to my mind, being fit in terms of cricket is far more important than anything.

I was one of the first ones to be on the cover of 'Society' magazine in 1995 flaunting my six packs.

One thing I thought of, I call it By Sea, By Land, By Foot. It'd be a 100-mile paddle, a 100-mile run, and a 100-mile bike, back-to-back-to-back. But I don't want to end up in the hospital.

The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss Universe contest where I was exposed to girls who were very fit for their age. They could have joined the Olympics. They were doing crazy exercises.

One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.