Words matter. These are the best Diana Nyad Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I’d call science fiction. You feel like you’ve been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.
All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself ‘find a way,’ you’ll make it through.
There are some days where I’ll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that’s a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar – cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.
The highs were high, the awe, I’m not a religious person, but I’ll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you’re breathing, you’re looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it’s awe-inspiring.
I’ve never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it’s set me so far back, I just don’t’ have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.
This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.
I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
It’s been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
I do write all the time about – you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It’s not impossible. Name it.
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.
I think I’m going to my grave without swimming 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.
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that’s been done.
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.
It’s not too late, I can still live my dreams.
About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we’re living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there’s nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.
