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“Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.”

p 167
Achieving The Impossible (2010)

“As a pioneer swimmer, you've got to be willing to fail and try again. The point isn’t to learn to fail, the point is to learn to bounce back.”

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“My love for the water would always be tempered by respect for dangers that must never be underestimated.”

p 9, reflecting on his father's near-drowning off the Australian coast
Achieving The Impossible (2010)

“I’ve swum through some very cold and rough seas. I think that’s made me more determined than the average person.”

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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.”

p 192, describing his swim across the North Pole (2007)
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)

“We made fracking a civil rights issue. Because that is what it is. We all have a right to a healthy environment and to clean water. And so do our children.”

Against fracking in the Karoo, 3 May 2011
Speaking & Features

“Everywhere water is under threat. It is our most precious resource. And there is no alternative to it.”

Address to Cape Town Press Club, 13 May 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVFBOVJKX4 <br class="br">Speaking & Features

“I have been haunted by that swim through the whale graveyard and haven’t been able to get the image of the bones out of my head. Man hunted whales almost to the point of extinction, not seeming to care that we would lose one of the wonders of the sea world forever. It is the coldness of the water in Antarctica that preserves the bones and makes it look like they were left there yesterday but I like to think they are there as a reminder of man’s potential for folly.”

p 315-6, describing his swim at Deception Island, Antarctica (2005)
Achieving The Impossible (2010)

“Most Channel crossings are won or lost before the first stroke is even taken.”

16 January 2016, Lewis Pugh's blog
Speaking & Features