75 Quotes by Diana Nyad

In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.

You’re never too old to chase your dream.

When you achieve your Dreams It’s not so much what you get, It’s who you become.

The mantra I used was ‘find a way.’

When you reach for the horizon, as I’ve proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it’s up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us.

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life.

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.