"Swimming always challenges an athlete mentally and physically. It is an individual sport, you don’t have a teammate t…"

"At first I tried out a few disciplines before settling for swimming. Then what followed was a lot of learning and tra…"

"Many of the things I would wish to do are beyond my control. I would need swimming pools of international standard du…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"A woman is never just one thing. She is strength and grace, fire and kindness, a dreamer and a fighter. Today, we cel…"

"I think that was enough time for us to learn the playing style that he wants us to play. I think we are all on the sa…"