Top 26 Deena Kastor Quotes

#1. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Deena Kastor

#2. My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.

Arielle Kebbel

#3. Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you.

Deena Kastor

#4. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.

Deena Kastor

#5. You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Amit Kalantri

#6. Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

Deena Kastor

#7. I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Deena Kastor

#9. Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

Deena Kastor

#10. One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

Deena Kastor

#11. There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

A-Trak

#12. This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

T.E. Lawrence

#13. Oh, of course, if a man keeps his soul in a bandbox he can produce it immaculate in the end; but what's a soul for if it's not for use? He would much better live in the world with his fellow-men, and help them keep their souls clean, even at the risk of getting his own a little dusty.

Jean Webster

#14. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

Deena Kastor

#16. A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

Deena Kastor

#17. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

Deena Kastor

#18. To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

Joseph Conrad

#19. A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

Jack Canfield

#20. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Deena Kastor

#21. I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

Iain Banks

#22. America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#23. I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Jodie Foster

#24. I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

Deena Kastor

#25. A magic lamp now seemed to be suspended in Maria's prison, and fairy landscapes flitted round the gloomy walls, late so blank. Rushing from the depth of despair, on the seraph wing of hope, she found herself happy. - She was beloved, and every emotion was rapturous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#26. I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

Deena Kastor

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