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."

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The Titanic will protect itself.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.