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To do anything worthwhile, you will face periods of grinding doubt and fear.
Lewis Pugh
For us to find lasting peace between people, we must first make peace with nature.
Lewis Pugh
You must not dither - swim like you're running through a minefield.
Lewis Pugh
I tolerate cold water. Anyone who says they love swimming in freezing water is either lying or has never done it.
Lewis Pugh
Unless our children have been into nature, it is unlikely they will care about it when they grow up.
Lewis Pugh
If you have a passion, follow it. It's the best barometer of what you will be good at. And choose a career that you enjoy – the extra money of a job you detest isn't worth it.
Lewis Pugh
When I can't decide which path to take, I have a meeting with the 75-year-old me. That person usually knows what to do.
Lewis Pugh
Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.
Lewis Pugh
A massive turquoise glacier feeds into Magdalenefjord, with chunks of ice as big as buildings breaking off and landing in the water to float away as icebergs. As I swam past them, with my head in the water, I heard a tantalising sound: a snap-crackle-pop, just like Rice Krispies in milk. It was the sound of tiny air bubbles being released from the ice – air that had been trapped there as much as 3,000 years ago. To swim through this sound, I thought, is to swim in history.
Lewis Pugh
Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.
Lewis Pugh
Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.
Lewis Pugh
My mind has to be ready. My body also has to be ready. But even more important, my heart has to be ready. What I mean by that is for the swims I do, I must have a burning reason.
Lewis Pugh
My own feeling was that witnessing the explosion of an atomic bomb, and having to examine all the dead animals, had a profound effect on my father.
Lewis Pugh
I look for swims where I can carry a powerful message. No message, no swim. I don't get wet now unless it's for a reason.
Lewis Pugh
The essence of any great achievement is to believe in your purpose.
Lewis Pugh
I could not believe what I was seeing: everywhere there were whale bones. Thousands of them stacked on top of each other. They rose from the seabed almost to the surface of the water. There were big bones. I could make out many of them: rib bones, jaw bones, vertebrae. In some places they were piled so high that, when I took a stroke, my hands touched them. I thought of all the beautiful whales I'd seen around the coast of South Africa and Norway that add so much to the area. How many whales were hunted and brought to this island before having their carcasses burned for oil and their bones dumped in this way? It disgusted me to such an extent that I considered stopping the swim to move it elsewhere, but I decided I had to press on.
Lewis Pugh
Four-point-two kilometres is a long way for a frozen body to sink.
Lewis Pugh
We cannot afford the luxury of cynicism or even pessimism in our reaction to climate change. The situation is too serious. We must tackle it head on – and immediately.
Lewis Pugh
I don't know of any sport where the goalposts can shift the way they do with endurance swimming.
Lewis Pugh
It took me over three years to get the beret and the most enriching part of the experience was getting to know men for whom you would have given your life on the battlefield. It is a big thing to say there are people who are not your family for whom you would give up your life. But that is how close we became.
Lewis Pugh
When you have hope in the future, you have power in the present. And when you lose that hope, your dream goes with it.
Lewis Pugh
Don't look for other people to validate your dreams. If it feels right, just go for it.
Lewis Pugh
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