Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."
Robert BallardThere are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
Robert BallardThere's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
Robert Ballard