Diana Nyad

Close your eyes, close your fists, and say, ‘I couldn’t have done it a fingernail faster.’ If you can say it, and mean it, I guarantee you it will be all right, no matter what happens. No regrets.

Diana Nyad

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 light.

Diana Nyad

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

Diana Nyad

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

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

If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn’t matter what you do every day. 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

Isn’t life about determining your own finish line?

Diana Nyad

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

That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.

Diana Nyad

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

Diana Nyad