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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.