Swimming Quotes

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

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.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

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

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a hike.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.