Swim Quotes · Page 37

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't…

— Ray Lewis

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have…

— Maya Angelou

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of…

— Samuel Beckett

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do…

— Douglas Adams

The Bible is so deep! As the 6th-century church father Gregory put it: "Scripture is like a river...shallow enough...for the lamb to…

— Martin Manser

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

— Paul Allen

I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again.…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive…

— Garry Marshall

The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles…

— John Cleese

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

— Karen White

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

— W. C. Fields

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

— Michael Phelps

I love to swim and listen to good music.

— Kratika Sengar

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim…

— Lee Trevino

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want…

— Derek Cianfrance

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a…

— Virginia Woolf

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

— Frida Kahlo

There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For…

— Diana Nyad

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

— Kanye West

I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.

— Usain Bolt

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me…

— Mark Warkentin

I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.

— Song Hye-kyo