Swimming Quotes

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!

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

I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'

If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

President Can't Swim.

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo and I was having problems coping with that image.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching