75 Quotes by Diana Nyad

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.

Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.

Never ever give up. You’re never too old to chase your dreams. And even if something looks like a solitary sport, it’s a team effort. Words to live by!

That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.