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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.

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

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

  • 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.'

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

    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.
  • 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.

    Age   Usual   World  
    Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)
  • This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

    Twitter post from Apr 20, 2015
  • 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 chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.
  • 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.

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

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

    Twitter post from Apr 07, 2015
  • When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.

  • 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.

    Mom   Regret   Want  
  • 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.

    Pain   Mean   Long  
    Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)
  • The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

    Twitter post from Apr 22, 2015
  • I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

    Twitter post from Apr 28, 2015
  • I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

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

    "Diana Nyad's impossible dream should be saluted, not scorned" by Jill Homer, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.
  • 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.

  • Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Two   Knowing   Water  
    FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014
  • 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.

    Pain   Light   Heartache  
    "Diana Nyad Tells Oprah About Healing From Sexual Abuse", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2013.
  • "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: 'We Should Never Ever Give Up'" by Anthony Castellano and Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2013.
  • You're never too old to chase your dream.

    Diana Nyad (2015). “Find a Way”, p.275, Vintage
  • 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 making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.
  • 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.

    Mom   Dream   Moving  
    "CNN Live Event/Special" with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2013.
  • 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 (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)
  • The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

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  • Born: August 22, 1949
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