What Andrea Fuentes has said about Courage and curiosity
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 17, 2026
Andrea Fuentes, Spanish Olympic medalist in artistic swimming and national team coach, has been quoted on Courage and curiosity 2 times in 1 episode of Tomorrow, Today, most recently on October 17, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Fuentes argued that Alex Honnold's lack of fear of falling is not courage, whereas his public speaking despite fear is.
“he's not afraid of falling as much as other humans. So for me, this is not so much courage”
Tomorrow, Today: Andrea Fuentes: Olympic Medals, Failure, Leadership & Finding Purpose | Shekhar Natarajan (Oct 17, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:15
Fuentes recommended replacing courage with curiosity, saying it makes decisions easier because one stops fearing the outcome.
“courage for curiosity so many times that would make so much easier every decision. Like I'm not afraid of the outcome”
Tomorrow, Today: Andrea Fuentes: Olympic Medals, Failure, Leadership & Finding Purpose | Shekhar Natarajan (Oct 17, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:06
Episodes
Andrea Fuentes: Olympic Medals, Failure, Leadership & Finding Purpose | Shekhar NatarajanTomorrow, Today · Oct 17, 2026 · 1 h 28 min
Shekhar Natarajan talks with Olympic artistic swimmer and coach Andrea Fuentes about failure, fear, grief, rebuilding the US team and her coaching philosophy.
Others on Courage and curiosity
- Shekhar Natarajan · 1 quote
Andrea Fuentes on other topics
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- 2022 World Aquatics Championships · 2 quotes
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- Retirement from professional sport · 2 quotes
- Artistic swimming · 2 quotes
- Grief · 1 quote
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- Emotional abuse in sport · 1 quote