Roz Savage

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things,…

— Roz Savage

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really…

— Roz Savage

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and…

— Roz Savage

So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy -…

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“I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have…

— Roz Savage

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

— Roz Savage

“I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my…

— Roz Savage

“I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh.…

— Roz Savage

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for.…

— Roz Savage

I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or…

— Roz Savage

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

— Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

— Roz Savage

“So I might be over two thousand miles from my next hot meal, cold beer or decent shower, but at least I…

— Roz Savage

“With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on…

— Roz Savage

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

— Roz Savage

Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and…

— Roz Savage

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big…

— Roz Savage

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

— Roz Savage

The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection…

— Roz Savage

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own…

— Roz Savage

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

— Roz Savage

“It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me…

— Roz Savage

“I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain…

— Roz Savage

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of…

— Roz Savage

“To live a fulfilling life is an endurance event, and the only way to get to the finish line is to focus…

— Roz Savage