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.

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")