Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.
They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.
I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.
I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
Knowledge refined from experience becomes a weight upon wisdom when its driving purpose is solely selfish.
When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.
When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
I train hard Monday to Friday. I'll do weights and cardio in the gym most mornings and do a spinning class, too.
