One of the things we get told all the time is: "If you want something bad enough you will get it", personally I get annoyed when I hear this. No matter how much I wanted to be an astronaut as a youth I don't think I could have ever achieved this. My lack of intelligence, and correctly functioning eye balls, are just two of the many reasons.
Then I see this gentleman, who is widely regarded as the greatest olympian of all time (I think Sir Steve Redgrave may have a very good shout for that title too) revealing he was too scared to put his face in the water just 8 years before he broke his first world record.
Surely anything is possible?
Surely anything is possible?
After swimming the Channel next year I think I'll have another crack at becoming an astronaut (I use the word 'another' very generously, my first crack involved drawing a spaceship and saying "I want to be an astronaut")...