Alexandra Guarnaschelli Quotes

You would not want me on your football team.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

As a scientist, I play in the top league - the Olympics, the World Championships - and I want to be in the lead. As a runner, I set personal goals, and I want to push beyond my own personal limits. I was very happy when I practiced for several months and then reached my goal to run a marathon in 2:50.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.

Football players win football games.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

What I like most about track is the feeling I get inside after a good run.

I live to be in these matches.