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Sam Fricker

Sam Fricker

Australian springboard diver

Sep 27, 2026

11:17
Mm.
11:18
I injured my wrist at training one day, and I went to get some ice and a bag, and I accidentally pulled out two plastic bags, 'cause that was the only ones they had back then.
11:26
And she said, "No, but make sure you put one, put one back.
11:29
You don't wanna be wasting plastic." And I thought, "Oh, wow, something as small as me just getting ice for my wrist, uh, I have to be thinking about, uh, the, the impacts of the environment and the impacts that I'm having on the world." And I was quite young then, maybe about 13, 14, and I thought that was im- that was really- A moment that I remembered that those small things really do matter.
11:53
And there was a lot of those things that she taught me, not just from diving, but from, from being a good person as well, and you watch...
12:01
You learn a lot more from watching than I think you do from people telling you.

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