Swimming Quotes

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

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.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

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

One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Being in good shape is my lifestyle, and I can't remember a time when I was out of shape. I try to live an active lifestyle and mix up all types of activities like fighting, running and swimming.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

Swimming always cleans your soul