Diana Nyad Quotes

• I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

  Diana Nyad

  Running, Mind, Body

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• You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Perseverance, Believe

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• This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

  Diana Nyad

  Inspiring, Dream, Journey

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2015

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• You're never too old to chase your dream.

  Diana Nyad

  Inspirational, Dream, Chase Your Dreams

  Diana Nyad (2015). “Find a Way”, p.275, Vintage

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• 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

  Sports, Impossible Situations, Desire

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Achieve, Achieving Your Dreams

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• I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

  Diana Nyad

  Pain, Mean, Long

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

  Diana Nyad

  Inspirational, Body, Spirit

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• I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

  Diana Nyad

  Giving Up, Life Lesson, Don't Give Up

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2015

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• 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.'

  Diana Nyad

  Sleep, Night, Everyday

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• A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

  Diana Nyad

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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• Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

  Diana Nyad

  Pain, Light, Heartache

  "Diana Nyad Tells Oprah About Healing From Sexual Abuse", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2013.

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• "I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team."

  Diana Nyad

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Diana Nyad: 'We Should Never Ever Give Up'" by Anthony Castellano and Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2013.

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• When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Brother, Children

  "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

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• But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

  Diana Nyad

  Lines, Finish Line, Deadline

  Twitter post from Apr 07, 2015

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• I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

  Diana Nyad

  Path, Empowering Women, Painful

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• I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Goal

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• It's all authentic. It's a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

  Diana Nyad

  Mom, Dream, Moving

  "CNN Live Event/Special" with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2013.

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

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Twitter post from Apr 22, 2015

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• My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

  Diana Nyad

  Mom, Regret, Want

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• The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

  Diana Nyad

  Inspirational, Way, Used

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• This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you.

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Lifelong, Glad

  "Diana Nyad becomes first to swim from Cuba to Florida without shark cage" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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• 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

  Character, Foundation, Horizon

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• 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.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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