Diana Nyad

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.

Diana Nyad

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

Diana Nyad

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

Diana Nyad

The mantra I used was ‘find a way.’

Diana Nyad

There is… nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I’ve done it with my own two arms and legs.

Diana Nyad

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

Diana Nyad

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Diana Nyad

I think I’m going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

Diana Nyad

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.

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.

Diana Nyad