Quotes by Lewis Pugh

Lewis Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

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Player

Soccer

I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it’s swimming or talking.

Swimming

Talking

Thinking

I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I’d always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations.

Passion

Swimming

Years

I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I’d train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica… You’ve really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

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Sea

Swim

I love swimming, swimming’s my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

Passion

Swimming

Way

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

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Country

Thinking

I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.

Giving

Mountain

Swim

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Lucky

Swimming

World

I’m one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn’t sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I’m meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.

Jobs

Passion

Two

I’ve got two dogs – one’s a Jack Russell and she’s one year old now, and I’ve got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing.

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Years

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Quotes by Lewis Pugh

Lewis Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it’s swimming or talking.

I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I’d always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations.

I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I’d train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica… You’ve really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

I love swimming, swimming’s my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

I’m one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn’t sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I’m meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.

I’ve got two dogs – one’s a Jack Russell and she’s one year old now, and I’ve got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing.

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