Quotes by Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don’t worry about them. I’ll just swim right through them.

Inspiration

Motivation

Ocean

But for each of us, isn’t life about determining your own finish line?

Deadline

Finish Line

Lines

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

Age

Usual

World

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Empowering Women

Painful

Path

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Long

Mean

Pain

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

Goal

Motivational Sports

Sports

I think I’m going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

Florida

Swimming

Thinking

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you’ll never make it.

Desire

Impossible Situations

Sports

It’s all authentic. It’s a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago – doesn’t come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it’s somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you’re looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

Dream

Mom

Moving

Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me…. It’s grueling. There’s nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you’re doing a hard workout, you’re throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.

Hard Work

Swimming

Workout

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Achieving Your Dreams

Age

Believe

Brother

Burnout

Children

Deadline

Desire

Dream

Empowering Women

Finish Line

Florida

Glad

Goal

Hard Work

Impossible Situations

Inspiration

Lifelong

Lines

Long

Mean

Mom

Motivation

Motivational Sports

Moving

Ocean

Pain

Painful

Path

Perseverance

Regret

Sports

Swimming

Thinking

Usual

Want

Workout

World

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Quotes by Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don’t worry about them. I’ll just swim right through them.

But for each of us, isn’t life about determining your own finish line?

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

I think I’m going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you’ll never make it.

It’s all authentic. It’s a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago – doesn’t come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it’s somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you’re looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

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