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>> INTERVIEWER: Do you feel intimidated?
>> BOBBI: Yeah, that I wouldn't be able to finish and that I would look like a fool and
you know, that kind of stuff.
I'm too old really. I would never think of that as an excuse though.
I would never think I'm too old.
But with swimming, a lot of people don't want to put a bathing suit on. They feel very self-conscious.
[LAUGHTER]
Everybody else wears one.
It's a big part of mental. We definitely go beyond our comfort zone a lot. You have to
want to do it and you have to want to finish.
We're willing to try new and different things. Good things have happened in life just by
going, 'yeah I'll try that'. A lot of things I do, I do just to see if I can do it.
Failure doesn't bother me and I can't say I've ever really, really really had failure.
There are times I've gotten down in the dumps because I haven't swam well.
It will bother me for a day or so. There are too many other things going on in life that
are important.
There are things you can change and things you can't change in this world and I think
if people could just learn I can't change it I can't do a darn thing about it.
You can either make yourself miserable for the rest of your life or other people or just
get on with your life.
>> BOBBI: It has happened. It's done. It's over with. Just go a day at a time from there.
Whenever I wasn't feeling up-to-par and what not, I would just, you know, hop in the water
do a little good work out.
I'd feel a lot better when I came out.
Swimming was a fantastic outlet.
I have really close friends in swimming. Yeah.
I think it was the social aspect that made has always me hang in there.
There are friends at the pool. There are friends wherever you go. Big community support.
Exercising is pretty easy. We know that in the long run it's doing us so much good that
it doesn't matter where we finish. So I think its a matter of getting it to the place where
it's really important in your life.