Swimming Quotes

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Without goals, training has no direction.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

The water doesn't know how old you are.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.