Diana Nyad Quotes

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Diana Nyad

Profession : Author

Birth : August 22, 1949

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

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I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

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

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There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

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For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

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