Mary Decker Quotes

#1. Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

Ron Pickering

#2. I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Mary Decker

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

Abel Ferrara

#6. I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.

Mary Decker

#7. When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

Thalia

#8. Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

Wendy Kopp

#9. After half an hour the Senora emerged, short of breath, with flushed cheeks....as uf she'd been seized and shaken like a faulty thermometer.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. 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

#11. We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.

Mary Decker

#12. Letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Luce Irigaray

#13. 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