Diana Nyad

I'm so curious.

Well, you know, other things happened when I was 30.

So that's two years after trying it for the first time.

And after training for two more years, I was starting to get offers from ABC Sports, from National Public Radio.

And, you know, I had no career except for the swimming.

And I just thought, you know, I got to take these offers.

I got to start making a professional life for myself.

And so the next 30 years, that's what I did.

And you know what?

I'm not going to complain about those years.

I'm chasing after Olympic –

heroes who are pursuing their excellence and telling their stories.

But at the end of that 30 years, I started to feel tremendous malaise.

I started to feel like I'm not a doer anymore.

All I do is follow other people around and tell their stories.

I want to be back to my own story again.

So I was 60 and I thought, well, I don't know, but I'm going to give it a try and see if I've still got it.

I did.

On CNBC, I did a poor man's version of a Barbara Walters special.

So I would go out to try to get Julia Child or John McEnroe or anybody I could, and we'd piece together a horribly produced half hour.