Lewis Pugh - Swimming Quotes

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There's nothing more chilling than swimming across open sea, where recently there used to be a solid glacier.

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This wasn't some kind of stunt. This was a symbolic swim, and I needed to be courageous. [...] Swimming in a wetsuit or drysuit just wouldn't send the right signal.

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I don't know of any sport where the goalposts can shift the way they do with endurance swimming.

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I tolerate cold water. Anyone who says they love swimming in freezing water is either lying or has never done it.

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I resolved to follow my dream. I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them. And though it promised to make me poor and would take away the security provided by a career in law, that didn't worry me.

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When people say to me, you must have a very strong mind to swim across the North Pole, or off Antarctica or on Mount Everest, I tell them that endurance swimming builds good mental strength.

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I've been swimming for 25 years, and I don't think there is one swim that I have done where someone didn't say beforehand, 'I don't think it's possible' or 'You'll never make it'. If someone tells you that you can't achieve your dream, don't waste good time arguing. Walk away and do it.

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