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Lewis Pugh Quotes

born 1969 England

Lewis William Gordon Pugh OIG (born 5 December 1969) is an ocean advocate, maritime lawyer and a pioneer swimmer.

England
Environmentalists
Lawyers

Also known as: Lewis Gordon Pugh

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

Four-point-two kilometres is a long way for a frozen body to sink.

Achieving The Impossible (2010)

There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.

Marine Protected Areas are good for the world economy, for the health of the oceans, for every person living on this planet.

Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

Unless our children have been into nature, it is unlikely they will care about it when they grow up.

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

Achieving The Impossible (2010)

Never plan for victory and defeat in your mind at the same time.

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.

Achieving The Impossible (2010)

For us to find lasting peace between people, we must first make peace with nature.

The English Channel is the perfect stretch of water to truly test the human mind.

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

You must not dither - swim like you're running through a minefield.

You don't know pain until you've had a stalactite in your cock.

I’m not a rule-breaker by nature. But there are times when you need to untangle yourself from red tape. Because the truth is, if you wait for permission, some things will simply never happen.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

If this number of humans were killed in a year, it would be called genocide. There is a name for what is happening in our oceans today: it is ecocide.

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

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

The essence of any great achievement is to believe in your purpose.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lewis Pugh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.