Deena Kastor Running Quotes

#1. We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#2. I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

Julia Child

#3. 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

#4. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.

S.A. Tawks

#5. I know people say 'what about when you're old and you're covered in tattoos?' - so what. Anyway, in time to come everyone will have them and it will be all the trend, won't it? 'Cuz you don't know how the times are gonna change.

Cher Lloyd

#6. Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.

Christopher Moore

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

Deena Kastor

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

Deena Kastor

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

Deena Kastor

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

Deena Kastor

#11. Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#12. As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

James McGreevey

#13. 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

#14. Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

Hallie Ephron

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

Jane Mayer