Jacques Mayol Quotes & Sayings

Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment.
We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb. — Jacques Mayol

You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever. — Jacques Mayol

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion. — Jacques Mayol

Freediving is about silence ... the silence that comes from within.. — Jacques Mayol