Nuala Moore

You know, I had a possibility to kind of go down a vein of all of these amazing stuff.

But the only reason I could do that was to have a normal life.

And a lot of times, you know, say when I was heading off to swim in the Bering Straits or say if I was competing at the World Championships, I would put a sign on my door, you know, gone to the World Championships back on Monday.

And, you know, even when I was coming home from the Bering Straits, you know, there's media and everything, requirements in Dublin.

But I had to get home because I think when you take these huge risk, you've got to get back into that little box.

And I think you can square your circle in that box.

So I just love to come back.

And because I had a lot of struggles in 2007 and 8 and, you know, with recognition and lack of it and how I could tally it.

And, you know, where do I get what I want from all of these amazing things?

And is anyone watching?

And then I decided that it was such an amazing thing to sit back into my world and see how other people viewed me.

So you have to be able to move.

I have to be able to move between the two.

Why did I do what?

I think it's interesting because you feed the beast.

You know, you feed the beast.

For me, I think being exposed to my weaknesses, and I know that sounds like kind of a strange sentence, but any time that I was pushed back from something, I could see a way forward, but I just couldn't get there.

You know, and sometimes I would say I can do that based on what I don't know, but I could do it.

And I could see times that, like, I didn't like not being strong.

I didn't like not being...