“Criticizing an actor for being emotional is like putting down a swimmer for being able to swim.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers. — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer. — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
As a swimmer I know how important it is to be fit, healthy and eat well. — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Because I was a swimmer, I felt like sports did help me to realize that my body was more than what it… — Iskra Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Most ducks have legs like orange spatulas. Those must be lazy swimmers. Mine have thighs like Michael Phelps in the summer of 2008.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the… — Estella Warren Copy Share Image
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's… — Jessie James Decker Copy Share Image
I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times,… — Caroline Buchanan Copy Share Image
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to… — Joakim Zander Copy Share Image
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I… — Katie Ledecky Copy Share Image
From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of that because I feel like… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I… — Kirsty Coventry Copy Share Image
I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to… — Margaret Craven Copy Share Image
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks.” “Excuse me?” “You know, luv. Sperm, if you want… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my… — Dawn Fraser Copy Share Image
(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out. — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image