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I'm sort of a strange bird.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Bird
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Running is my bedrock activity.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Bedrock
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My first expedition was at about the age of eight.
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Expedition
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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Teacher
Lucky
Me Something Who
Teachers
Saw
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Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.
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Risk
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The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Heard
Needs
Turned
Voices
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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Education
College
High School
School
School High School Through
Achievements
Education School High School
Greatest
High
Getting
High School And College
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I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Health
Being Beautiful
Healthy
My Time
Most
Being
Devote
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To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Push
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Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Adventure
Minnesota
Setting
Outdoors
Rural
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The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Marriage
Best Way
Husbands
Perhaps
Suggest
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I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Aspect
Physical Activity
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
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I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
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Strive
Overcome
Push
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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.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Achieve
Fall
Order
Full
Pocket
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Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Courageous
Leap
Skydiving
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This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
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Journey
Arctic
Committed
Momentum
Return
Initiatives
Sharing
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My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Brother
Frozen
Taught
Backyard
Bill
Climber
Grade
Older
Seventh
Waterfall
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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.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Running
Forever
Strong
Breath
Love Feel Never
Feeling
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I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Physical Strength
Steadiness
Stress
Area
Doubts
Make Up
Physical
Pole
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Inspirational
Teacher
Struggle
Teachers
Tremendous
Lousy
Readers
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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.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Gym
Haul
Farm
Weights
Portion
Split
Tires
Wood
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Disability
Learning Disability
People
School
Stubborn
Thinking
Dig
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Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.
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Human Beings
Links
Beings
Facing
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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.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Prove
Men Women Feel
Physically
Burn
Women Men Feel
Sucked
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I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Education
Opportunity
Audience
North Pole
Physical Education
Projects
Speak
Talk
North
Physical
Pole
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Courage
Chance
Life Lesson
Muster
Relative
Risk
Starting
Expedition
Project
Lesson
Taking
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Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Critics
Ordinary
Our Lives
Certain Point
Reach
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For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Journey
Truth
Exploration
Fiber
Heart
Act
Rise
Even
Interior
Moment
Otherwise
Telling
Wondering
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For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Ice
Obstacles
Passion
Strive
Overcome
Greatest
Area
Itself
Excel
Push
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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
Ann Bancroft / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Appearance
Physically
Aura
Describe
Element
Emotionally
Presence
Putting
Some People
Spirits
Third
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