In his speech, the Mallorcan athlete highlighted the value of having a dream that serves as a horizon throughout one's life. In addition, he tried to make the more than 150 young people who attended the event see that, "in life, what we are really looking for is not to have a big salary or win many medals; but rather - thinking coldly - what we want is to be happy".

Xavi Torres also stressed that, in sport and in life, "the important thing is not the award that others can give you, but the one you give yourself" by having achieved or surpassed your own goals. This athlete was born with a tetraphocomelia (because he has deformities in the four extremities of his body) as a result of a flu that his mother had during pregnancy. Torres laughingly commented that, when he was born, his parents "would have been upset if they had been told that their son would be a professional athlete and that he would be paid for it". Despite the few opportunities Torres could count on to succeed, the Mallorcan swimmer emphasized that "the positive attitude his parents transmitted to him during his childhood motivated him to take advantage of those lesser possibilities he could have".

Xavi Torres repeated twice that he "wouldn't change his life for anyone else's," even though "it would be very different if he had all his limbs. Torres shared with the audience his perception that, on the one hand, you have to know how to face your fears - because "only then do you know yourself, with your abilities and disabilities" - and that, on the other hand, it is not good to lock yourself in a box to be protected. "The real opportunities are not the ones you are given, but the ones you take advantage of," Torres said. In the same vein, the athlete explained that, despite our flaws, only by knowing ourselves do we come to love ourselves. "And, if you don't love yourself, how will others love you?" he added.

"I can't choose to have the body I have, but I can choose between coming into this conference room in a wheelchair with 100 pounds more, or coming in fit and walking," Torres said. "All the experiences I had led me to take life the way I do. Now I know I am more than two arms and two legs," he added.

Xavi Torres concluded the lecture highlighting that "in life you have never done everything". He himself, despite knowing that his degree program as a professional swimmer is coming to an end, has for some years now started many other activities "already with his head out of the water" that do not prevent him from continuing to have a normal life, what his parents wanted the day he was born.