I think you can imagine everyone has ankle weights on, or technology, and there's a reason that people aren't floating around. But… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister… — Suzanne LaFleur Copy Share Image
On a typical Monday I swim from six until 8am. I go from there to the gym and do a session from… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it… — Liam Tancock Copy Share Image
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra! I'm most often surrounded by… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was… — Katie Ledecky Copy Share Image
Keeping your sanity is sometimes stalling the business aspect of things and being OK with saying no to certain things. Sometimes I… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living… — Parvesh Cheena Copy Share Image
And if I'm ahead, I can sometimes tell. It might mean I'm having a good swim, but pretty much, I'm just focused… — Katie Ledecky Copy Share Image
Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
“You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that’s what you have to do. And you do… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids.… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't… — Leisel Jones Copy Share Image
My body melts into his hard one until his strong arm, coiled around my small waist, is all that hols me upright.… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate to have an amazing, strong mother who is so supportive of everything me and my sisters did growing up -… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about… — Kieren Perkins Copy Share Image
I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of… — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
