34 Quotes by Ann Bancroft

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.