"I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal."
"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."
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Source: CNN Live Event/Special with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2013.
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