Ann Bancroft Quotations

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.

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

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.

Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.

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.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

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.

Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.

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

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

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.

My first expedition was at about the age of eight.

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

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.

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 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.

When I hear his key in the lock at night my heart starts to beat faster. I'm just so happy he's coming home. We have so much fun.

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.

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

You know, if I look at this activity as my whole career, this is my peak moment. I've been building for this my whole career.

You have to stay up on it all the time, but it's really fun exploring what we need to get ready. We're constantly learning.