“There’s just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.”
"I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water."
- Natalie Coughlin
Balance
"Without goals, training has no direction."
- Natalie Coughlin
Goals
"In training, I always brought my attention back to how I wanted to feel in my races. If I need to work on my body position at the end of my races, then I would push myself in practice to the point of exhaustion then work on my body position when exhausted."
- Natalie Coughlin
Determination
"Running has been my main form of exercise. I've been running five or six days a week. I love it."
- Natalie Coughlin
Well-being
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity