Swim team Quotes

21 quotes from 16 authors

Whether you’re a coach, a swimmer, or a parent on the pool deck, right words can capture the rhythm of training, the splash of competition, and the camaraderie that holds a team together. Here are 21 quotes from 16 distinct voices, each shedding light on teamwork, perseverance, and joy of moving through water as one.

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“Did you alltake your pants off? The swim team really knows how to throw a party.”

Jennifer Echols

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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put…

Lance Armstrong

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I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

Grace Gummer

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“...the arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the bed - Em had said it smelled of…

Jodi Picoult

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I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

Tommy Lee

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I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

Kevin Hart

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But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair,…

Emo Philips

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I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what…

Summer Sanders

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“I used to spend a lot of time in lap pools. Growing up I was on a few swim teams. In Florida…

Jarod Kintz

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In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that…

Elka Graham

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“I only remember fighting Ozzy O'Dell once. It was back in second grade. He threw these weird windmill-like punches, which was probably…

Neal Shusterman

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When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the…

Jeff Kinney

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Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and as soon as…

Victoria Arlen

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“Every morning I cheer on my Cheerios, but I don’t really want them to win. Secretly I’m trying to drown them and…

Jarod Kintz

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Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar…

Kevin Sessums

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I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so…

Jeff Kinney

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“When I was a teenager, for example, others questioned my blackness because some of the life choices I made weren’t considered to…

Issa Rae

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On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst…

Jeff Kinney

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As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black'…

Issa Rae

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[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great…

Kevin Sessums

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“My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell…

Emmy Laybourne

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