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Diana Nyad

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  1. “I know for sure that it goes by like lightning and you can't barely screech and grab onto it. I feel like that character grabbing onto the hands of the clock. Please slow down. But I've learned for sure that all there is is now.”

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  2. “My friends, when you're someone who's when I'm with the people who you go a lifetime with, you know, and I know you know this, there's nothing like it. There's the love of mates and there's the love of animals and there's a love of children. And we're lucky to have as much love as we can get it. But for me, the love of friendship is just, it's...”

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  3. “Champion does right, a champion as ethics and morals, and it's not just about winning. There's so many people in sport who have won, and we can't remember their names, but Billie Jean King, it doesn't matter how many titles she won. It is that human being who led, who refused to let human rights be second and women's rights be second to the money and the Wimbledon trophies held above, a champion is Mohammed Ali, who thought beyond just his immediate winnings and the belt he was going to wear. It's someone who embraces humanity and carries humanity with their spirit.”

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  4. “Be yourself. You know, I think when you're younger, you've got that outside vision of yourself looking in. Am I looking good? Am I sounding good? I know when I used to work on television, instead of really being in that moment, looking in that lens and saying, you know, I see someone sitting on their living room couch right now and I'm just with her. Talking to her, which you're so good at. I used to look in and I'd have this glass over feeling, I'd say, you know, am I looking good? You know, how's my jawline looking? How am I, you know, am I sounding intelligent? And someone said to me young at one time, just, you are a magnificent being, as we all are. Just be yourself. Just be your authentic self. And I think I have become largely and more and more your authentic self-authentic self.”

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  5. “I have. I would say that it's people. It's people from I've hung out with Maasai tribesmen. I've been with the presidents and the greatest athletes alive and all the people. And to me, every individual on this planet has a story. If I can tap just a few of those, that's my mission in life. I think it's just not even a mission. It's just maybe what I was meant to do, even though I don't usually use phrases like that.”

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  6. “The human spirit is filled with courage. And And I don't think you ever consciously decide to live those things out. You just are those things. If you're a courageous person, if you're a person filled with hope, it beams out of your eyes. When actions required, you all of a sudden jump to it. I personally feel after being lucky and traveling this whole wide world that almost all of us have that in us and are dying to live it out”

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  7. “You change and you make the whole world a better place just by within your household living by the values you believe so that your brothers and sisters do too. And then maybe that goes down the street. And maybe that goes to the whole neighborhood and for someone like you that goes out to a whole big bunch of Our humanity on this planet today”

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  8. “Part of it is to remain in mystery. And I don't believe we will ever know why we were really here, but we just are here, so feel it, do something about it, leave it in some little better state than you could have. There are some people I know who just touch their neighborhoods. In my neighborhood, a man down the street lost his wife last year. He's got four kids on his own. One woman in our neighborhood, she's busy. She works two jobs. She's raising three kids on her own. So why should she be the one to take this up? But she did. She went around and left us all a schedule. Diana, you've got to get delivered dinner to that guy every other Wednesday night. If you can't do it, get somebody else to do it. You've got, we've got to help. And she, you know, she took it upon herself to leave our street in a more soulful spiritual place than it had been. So I'm one for believing that”

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  9. “Religion is a construct. It's a man made construct which back when was very important to keep people behaving and keep people believing so that they had a community, that they could be together on something with. And I can still respect that. You know, I have been in places of worship where I can feel that community and understand it. I just don't believe in the being that sits over it, where spirituality has no construct at all. It's feeling and it's faith and it's... It's being in touch with this magical world we live in.”

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  10. “I think that the soul lives on because we have created so much energy and when we display courage and hope, it lives on. But I do believe the body goes back to Ash and it is never more.”

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  11. “The soul is your spirit. It's your love of humanity. It's your belief that there are, you know, there's more than you. There are people before us that you could weep to look at the discovery of an ancient city and realize that those people lived and they loved and they danced and they ate and they suffered and they lived just as we are. So there have been so many 40 and 60 and 80 year lives, billions of them and we all have souls and I feel they're collective souls.”

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  12. “Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just, the older I am, I walk around every day with, you know, flowers and buildings that people created. But certainly beings, you know, just every pair of eyes I look into, I see the souls.”

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  13. “I do. I don't think there's any contradiction in those terms. I think you can be an atheist who doesn't believe in an overarching being who created all of this and sees over it. But there's spirituality because we human beings and we animals and maybe even we plants, but certainly the ocean and the moon and the stars, we all live with something that is cherished and we feel the treasure of it”

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  14. “I don't criticize anybody. People tell me they see ghosts. They see ghosts. People tell me that they remember past lives back to the Middle Ages. They remember them. People see God and feel God and that's their faith. And I have nothing to say about it. Just for me, I'm an atheist who's in awe.”

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  15. “It's not bearded, but I guess there is an inference with God that there is a presence, there is either a creator or an overseer. I don't criticize anybody because you know what? The definition of life is we will never know. We will never know what that means.”

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  16. “Yeah, but you know, I don't understand why anybody would find a contradiction in that. I can stand at the beach's edge with the most devout Christian, Jew, Buddhists go on down the line and weep with the beauty of this universe and be moved by all of humanity. All the billions of people who have lived before us, who have loved and hurt and suffered. So to me, my definition of God is humanity and is the love of humanity. And as we return to, you know.”

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  17. “Yeah, I'm not a God person. And do I argue against my friends who are, you know, religious, Buddhist, Jews, Christians? Do you continue?”

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  18. “What are you doing with it? And it's a one way street, and we're not kidding ourselves when you get to 60 and 70 and 80, you're about at the end of the road. So, of course, I feel vital. I feel I'm in the prime of my life. And maybe I'll sit here with you 10 years from now and feel even more so at 74, maybe. But I'm definitely getting toward the end of that road more than I'm at the beginning. And I feel that whatever I set out to do, you know, forget about the world records and the first time in history, that's all wonderful. I don't negate that. I don't deny that it feels like a real ego pleasure to do something even young people have never done before. But really what I walk around smiling about right now is that I can be proud of this person I am. And I hope that people are going with me to find their own way, find a way in their own lives. And they seem to be telling me that.”

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  19. “I'm feeling that. It wells up deep and it doesn't have anything to do with this has changed your life overnight. I'm the same person I was as I was before Labor Day weekend. I want to oprah. A lot of people say to me now, well, now you need to swim the Pacific Ocean. I mean, what could be bigger than this? I say, it's not about the ocean. It's not about the swimming. I discovered at 60 that I wanted to get these values straight in my life so that when the end comes, I can say, I don't know about those early years. I was kind of just rolling through as dancing as fast as I can, like all of us do. But you get to a point where it doesn't matter what's happened to you. It doesn't matter what you've been through. You can't blame anything anymore. You are your own person and you take charge of your life and you decide who you want to be and how you want to live. This one, what does Mary Oliver say? What are you doing?”

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  20. “And the time passing. Except that the difference between now, I guess, the evolution for me now at this age is that I used to spend a lot of time beating myself up and regretting the past. I used to spend a lot of time in fantasizing the future too and worrying about the future, things I can't control. What if this happens? What if that happens? But I now am more in the power of now. And that's how to reckon with if there really are only 18 years left, if I am going to die at 82, then what more can I do about it than be in this chair looking your eyes and being in this moment? I'm just right here, right now, and that's the best I can do. What more can I do? And that's the best all we can do is be now and do everything in your potential to be the best of yourself in this moment.”

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  21. “So I'm saying I need to remember that my 70 years are going by too quickly, and I must say I have felt that all my life. As we get older, the clock ticks but the year. Well, this is what's so interesting.”

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  22. “Oh Lord. Just to coin a phrase. I need to read at least one major book every week. I need to remember that my 70 years are going to go by too quickly. And that's the only really important phrase of this, I guess. But how many 10-year-olds, honestly, it's not to make myself special, that's just my particular little eccentricity. When you're 10, you can't imagine being 11.”

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  23. “My mother says that her father lived to be seventy nine. Her mother's still living and my father's parents are still living, it would probably be a good guess that I will live to eighty years, which means I have seventy years left to go. I want to see all the countries of 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.”

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  24. “A fifth grade teacher, she's one of these wonderful teachers of my era of kids who saved all their favorite kids. She had a big cabinet of all the, so I was getting a little bit of notoriety in my 20s swimming around Manhattan, and she wrote me and she said, I saved your essay in fifth grade about when we said the title is What I Will Do for the Rest of my Life. So most fifth graders write, I'm going to be a fireman. I'm going to be a nurse. And so this is what I wrote.”

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  25. “Was it hard? You know, only in this way, as you know, the older you get, the clock starts ticking faster. You know, you're 30 and say, Oh, I got all the time in the world, I'll go that and I'll be this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, you're 60, you start counting the years because, you know, are we going to be vibrant at 90? Maybe not.”

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  26. “Let's talk about that. The microcosm of it is I like that you go through obstacles. You feel good and you don't feel so good. How do you find a way to get through the valleys? How do you keep believing? And then you see the other shore and you say, you know, I got through my marriage or I got through my cancer. Whatever is we're all going through every day. If you really want to get there, you can find a way. And that's what this sport is all about.”

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  27. “I believe I got many apologies and respectful notes from that group of swimmers when it was over to say, please forgive us for doubting, but we needed to ask these questions. It's over. Congratulations. It's history.”

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  28. “Most of them were very reasonable and respectful, and they just said, you know, any big record needs to be vetted. And I agree with that. And I said, I'm here for it. One guy, I mean, he had things like, I know you couldn't have done it because only a near 17 hours after you finished the next morning, you were at a press conference, even though you were still swollen, but you were laughing and orating and telling stories impossible to do 53 hours and get up. And I said, that is patently absurd. We could go out, you know, on the street and find people who are just genetically capable of staying up for days and have been through war stories. So that's crazy. The other people were reasonable and just wanted to know how many people were there. Was the observer's logs every minute? Was there somebody observing every minute who wasn't on my team that I wasn't grabbing onto the boat, getting out on the boat using flippers?”

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  29. “Yeah, yeah, I know. Can you imagine? I mean, first of all, we had 44 people out there, people of great scientific repute. They're not going to be involved with something that was shady by any means.”

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  30. “Yeah, that's what I was feeling the next day. It's over. I'm almost happier that it's over than I am that I did it. Just the push was so hard, so relentless, so difficult that just to have it over. I walk around my house saying, I'm not calling Cuba. I'm not calling Hillary Clinton to ask me to get Cuba's permissions. I'm not planning the training for the winter. It's done. It's finally done. This has been long. It's really been 35 years. Not many athletes have a story like this. You know, I love a story. And this is, I'm living a drama, you know. It's deeply satisfying, you know. Like I said before, it's not this. It's not the superficial happiness. No, no. It's going to last me a long time. Not to not do anything else, but just that I finally stuck with it and finished it, you know? Like I deserve this. And our team deserves it.”

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  31. “I'll tell you what happened. The next morning I'm lying in bed, and you know I've been neurotic about the weather for four years. Will it happen? Where are the East Winds? Where are the hurricanes? Will we ever get a chance to do it? So hard to get the conditions. So I'm lying in bed the next day. The mouth is awfully sore. And I turn on the television in the morning and Sam Champion from Good Morning America comes on with the weather and he says, there's a hurricane brewing in the Atlantic. And I said, I don't give a crap. In four years, I just don't give a crap.”

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  32. “Yeah, yeah. The 15, 18, 20, 22, 24 hour swims, all of them, which would be marathons unto themselves, just hundreds and hundreds of them. So to do this, I thought we were going to do it in 2010, but there was weather. And then 2011, there was jellyfish. Then 2012, there was storms and jellyfish incurred. So four years of this training, not to mention the 35 years of the dreaming training before. I walked up on that beach just filled with pride of myself that not once did the dream. Flounder. Not once did I say, Do I really want to do this? This is just so darn hard. Or, you know, people are dropping off my team like flies. They just don't believe it anymore. I never, ever lost belief that it was going to happen. You know, you have to dare. You know, you have to fail over and over again sometimes.”

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  33. “I think it just confirmed. It confirmed, you know, I knew who I was, and this just walking out on that beach, I was like, for the four years, no matter how deep the valleys were of disappointments and uphill climbs to get it organized again, the training is grueling. People don't know what this sport is like.”

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  34. “Of course not. You know, when I was done, you know, going home to be with my dog and being with my friends and having this satisfaction of knowing who I am in this life and not having any regrets about it and really sticking with something, you know, no matter how impossible it seemed, that's what's important to me, not, you know, superficial things in my life. That's not what makes one happy.”

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  35. “I never had that rehearsed. There wasn't any PR moment whatsoever. That was absolutely authentic to what I was feeling with those people giving me their eyes. Like, you know what? Those weren't people just having some fun. Like, oh, this cool thing just happened on the beach. They were looking me like, we just witnessed what we need to believe for our eyes, that you truly didn't give up, that you found a way after all these years and all these obstacles to get to this beach. And I need to feel that from my life. That's what those people were feeling. They were crying. And so I was in a moment and I didn't rehearse any of that. But making it didn't surprise me at all because I believed it and never let go of it.”

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  36. “Yeah, have you wrapped your brain around? That's the best way to put it. I have Oprah because I always believed in it. I always saw that day of walking up on that shore, just as a motivation to get through a 12-hour swim, I imagined it was this ego thing. I imagined what would happen when I reached shore. I would just give this poignant speech. You know, it would be the, you know, my friend said to me, it'll be a tragedy if your throat swells up and you can't breathe anymore. Not because you can't breathe, because you won't be able to talk when you get too short. And my friends know me. But the truth is, I always imagined, even in those other attempts when I didn't make it, what will I say when I get to shore? Well, this time there wasn't any of that. I was so in the moment.”

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  37. “More proud of myself because, you know, when the question comes, can you quite believe it? Can you really grasp, Wanda, do you have to see the pictures?”

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  38. “I have to tell you the truth. In all the swimming practices, you have to go, the words are until no more seawater lies beyond. So we're talking about even if seawater's up to your ankles, you're not done yet. So that's why the team was saying keep back, keep back.”

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