"You can work out in a pool and sweat, but you don't smell. In the water you are weightless. You are ageless. It feels…"

"Just make the point we come from the water. It's the most natural medium in the world. It's the only sport you can do…"

"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…"

"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…"

"Gutted, heartbroken, disappointed and confused but as the saying goes, everything happens for a reason and I have fai…"

"I will continue to stay true to myself as a person and player and not let one person’s decision or opinion of me chan…"