Diana Nyad

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.

Diana Nyad

It’s not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Diana Nyad

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.

Diana Nyad

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that’s been done.

Diana Nyad

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.

Diana Nyad

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

Diana Nyad

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.

Diana Nyad

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.

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.

Diana Nyad

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

Diana Nyad