"When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become."
Read quote
6 likes
Quote collection
Diana Nyad quotes (page 2 of 2)
30 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida."
Read quote
5 likes
"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."
Read quote
5 likes
"I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It's grueling. There's nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you're doing a hard workout, you're throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again."
Read quote
3 likes
"This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you."
Read quote
3 likes
"The mantra I used was 'find a way.'"
Read quote
3 likes
"I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'"
Read quote
3 likes