1 week Ago By Markos Papadatos
Australian Olympic diver and content creator Sam Fricker chatted about his “Diving Deep with Sam Fricker” podcast. Kobe Bryant once said: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” This quote applies to Sam Fricker, who is full of positivity.
Regarding his inspiration to start his “Diving Deep” podcast, he said, “I knew I couldn’t dive forever, and I wanted to learn from the successful people I interview. So, ‘Diving Deep’ is about talking to high performers and what they do and how they do it.” “I can learn from them, and I can apply that knowledge to try to be successful in other areas in my life outside the pool,” he added.
“The diving has been going well,” he said. “I’ve had these back injuries for the past six months now, perhaps even seven. I have these two bulging discs, and it has been such a long time, but I am starting to get back into it.
” “Not being able to dive every single day has been difficult; it has been a tough year. It is starting to feel better, and I am doing more and more in training,” he noted. His future goals are to someday “win an Olympic medal.
” “I want to keep diving full-time, possibly until the year 2032,” he said. “While it is very, very difficult to win an Olympic medal I still want to keep diving full-time. I want this injury to get better so that I can continue to train, and then, I want to be the best diver that I can be,” he elaborated.
“Also, I want to be one of the best content creators in the country of Australia and in the world,” Fricker added. On his daily motivations, Fricker shared, “I wake up with this fire inside me every single day, which is tough to explain. I just wake up with a lot of passion to get up and dive each day and make content every day.
” “I am excited to get up and make videos each day. I am excited to train and to better myself and move forward,” Fricker acknowledged. “I just want to continue to progress in whatever areas I’m trying.
The constant pursuit of trying to be better in something I’ve never arrived at is a battle that is always fought but never won, but it’s a battle that I like to fight,” he elaborated. “I am in an area that I enjoy so every day I get up (and I might be tired) but I just love it,” he added. Fricker won the bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in the 3 meter synchronized diving event.
On winning the Commonwealth Games bronze, Fricker remarked, “Just to achieve such a big dream in diving makes you feel like all of that training was worth it. To be able to do your best at one of those pinnacle events, it makes you feel proud of your diving career and proud of everything you’ve done.” “That Commonwealth medal was reassuring but I still want to push for an Olympic medal.
While it is very, very difficult to win an Olympic medal, if you are there, and you put in the work, you just never know,” he elaborated. Looking back in a rearview mirror over the past five years, he reflected, “I would see a person becoming the person I really want to become. I look in the mirror and I feel proud of the place I am in, and I am driven to do better.
” “Looking back, there was so much doubt, so much uncertainty, so many risks but also, always diving into the darkness and never knowing where that next step will lead. With hindsight and looking back, you can see how the dots connect and how things work out for the best,” he explained. “For example, this podcast has been growing really big in Australia and the content has been going well.
There were so many learning curves,” he admitted. “I think I’ve failed more than people see, like every single day I am making mistakes, but I am always learning and pushing to be better,” Fricker elaborated. A native of Newcastle, New South Wales, Fricker is a huge supporter and ambassador of the Starlight Children’s Foundation , He has been with them for the past five years, and he subsequently described the nonprofit organization as “wonderful.
” “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22” are the song lyrics of a popular Taylor Swift song, but that age also applies to Sam Fricker. “Being 22, an Olympic athlete and very fit, I wake up with a lot of energy,” he said. “I wake up very drive and I feel great.
Being able to wake up and feel good, and I am grateful to go out into the world and experience it with full strength and health.” On the best advice he has ever been given, he shared, “It will be harder than you expect, but it will also be better than you can ever imagine, especially once you get there and you achieve your goals.” His favorite motto to live by is the following: “The right thing to do is always the right thing to do.
” “Being a good human, being a good person, being able to talk to everyone, and being respectful,” he said. When asked what his superpower of choice would be, he said, “Being able to fly would be great. “That would be making my diving a little bit easier,” he said with a sweet laugh.
On his alternate career choice, he said, “I really loved soccer as a kid, and I would love to play soccer with a team and with a bunch of my friends. I would enjoy that team aspect to soccer.” “I enjoy working with a team to achieve a goal; I enjoy that and I love that,” he added.
While he doesn’t swim much, he listed the “freestyle” as his personal favorite stroke in swimming because it’s the easiest. In track and field, he noted that it would be “pretty cool” to run the 100 meter sprints. “I don’t like long distances,” he said with a sweet laugh.
Regarding his definition of the word success, Fricker said, “Success for me is extremely simple. It’s having a goal and achieving that goal.” “If your goal is to get up and write one email and you do that, then you’ve had a successful day.
If you make the Olympic team, and you achieve that, that is success as well,” he explained. “I just see success as achieving a goal you set out, and feeling good and happy,” he added. For his fans and supporters, Fricker expressed, “I am so grateful to the people that support me, and I am grateful that they are invested in what I do.
” “Without the fans, I wouldn’t be able to make my videos, so I am immensely grateful to them,” he concluded. Thomas Edison once said: “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
” Sam Fricker embodies this wise quote by the light bulb inventor. The “Diving Deep with Sam Fricker” podcast is available on Spotify . To learn more about Olympic athlete and social influencer Sam Fricker, follow him on Instagram and TikTok .
Markos Papadatos is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for Music News.Papadatos is a Greek-American journalist and educator that has authored over 22,000 original articles over the past 18 years. He has interviewed some of the biggest names in music, entertainment, lifestyle, magic, and sports.
He is a 16-time "Best of Long Island" winner, where for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022), he was honored as the "Best Long Island Personality" in Arts & Entertainment, an honor that has gone to Billy Joel six times..
