Ann Bancroft Quotes

I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I love that place where you get in running where you're just never out of breath and you just feel like you could go forever. I love that. I love feeling strong.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

My first expedition was at about the age of eight.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.