Diana Nyad

No, you do not.

And it takes me two hours and 50 minutes.

And you know what?

Nobody cares.

It's not a world record.

I'm here alone doing this, but it's intense for me.

I get excited the night before.

I start hydrating, and I get ready that morning, and I'm going to get those 1,000 pure.

Never, never 999.

I'm going to do 1,000 burpees every Tuesday and Friday.

I guess balance.

I guess balance.

I admit, I admit, if I approach a steep set of stairs now, if there's no guardrail, there's no, you know, banister.

Yeah.

I, uh, not going up, you know, going up, you have your balance and your strength under your legs, but going down, I get a little teetery and I don't like to feel that way.

I don't like to admit I feel that way, but, but I have, I've lost some, some bit of balance at this age and I gotta, I gotta watch out.

I'm starting to do all kinds of exercises like wall sits, you know, to strengthen the quads so that your, your legs are under you going downhill.

I didn't feel pressure, but, you know, just to tell a couple of stories out of school.

Yeah, do it.

Before the 1984 Olympics, I was with ABC, and the Olympics were out in Los Angeles, and there was a big production meeting, I'd say minimum 250 people, directors, cameramen, producers, everybody, and all of us announcers.