Mary Decker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
-- Mary Decker

#Running #Faster #Easier
I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.
-- Mary Decker

#Running #Differences #Romance
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
-- Mary Decker

#Expectations #Relax #Boots
I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.
-- Mary Decker

#Country #Nice #Complaining
I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.
-- Mary Decker

#Athlete #Winning #Thinking
I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.
-- Mary Decker

#Running #Thinking #Want

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.

Mary Decker famous quotes

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