money but in your 30s, you quit that to embrace full time endurance extreme swimming. yes. in a way, ijust wonder whether ego is a part of this and whether you were let s get to the campaigning in a minute but whether you are also trying to prove something to yourself about yourself. so, i think there s been a transition. so, you know, you re very, very right. i started out as a swimmer and i love swimming but then, i became a maritime lawyer and then, i became an ocean advocate and now, i represent the united nations as a un patron of the oceans and so, i suppose i m an environmental diplomat, so there s been that transition. but insofar as ego is concerned, there are easier ways of doing things. when you go into these swims, they are extremely, extremely hard. i understand that, but does breaking records, doing things that others have never done, matter to you? because i m just thinking of the way in which you i think even yourself, you ve at times compared yourself to people l
i think even yourself, you ve at times compared yourself to people like edmund hillary, you know, the first conqueror of everest. you are an explorer, in a sense, because you go to the most remote places. and there is always, for the rest of us who don t do that sort of thing, a fascination with motivation. yeah. i don t think i ve ever compared myself to sir edmund hillary. i mean, just to put him in perspective, he was the first person to climb mount everest but it was what he did afterwards which was so inspirational. i mean, he became a voice for notjust for mountaineering but for working together. he was an incredible voice in south east asia and india and nepal. i dream to be able to, one day, have that type of legacy. does breaking records matter to you? yes, it does, stephen, and the reason why it matters is as follows. when you re trying to tell a story about a place, you want to be the first person to go there to tell that story, right?
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they are extremely, extremely hard. i understand that, but does breaking records, doing things that others have never done, matter to you? because i m just thinking of the way in which you i think even yourself, you ve at times compared yourself to people like edmund hillary, you know, the first conqueror of everest. you are an explorer, in a sense, because you go to the most remote places. and there is always, for the rest of us who don t do that sort of thing, a fascination with motivation. yeah. i don t think i ve ever compared myself to sir edmund hillary. i mean, just to put him in perspective, he was the first person to climb mount everest but it was what he did afterwards which was so inspirational. i mean, he became a voice for notjust for mountaineering but for working together. he was an incredible voice in south east asia and india and nepal. i dream to be able to, one day, have that type of legacy. does breaking records matter to you?
maradona could not walk in the city in the daytime. there were, i don t know, a mother with her child, walking in the street, and see maradona, the first thought of the mother was, here, take my son and give him a kiss you know? it s like the pope. maradona was something incredibly special, because right now we have an incredible team. at that time we had a good team, but maradona was something like a god, and he carried on his shoulders the team and bring naples the victory. he is a man, a conqueror. in the south, we have i to win against the north. for maradona to do this, it is all. - he also was from a poor country. he was from argentina. he had nothing, like most of the neapolitans of that time.