My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.

To win our races, we will dare! The enemy may try every means to stop us, but look, "we won't care!

Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty.

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

We are all part of one another.