Swimming Quotes · Page 21

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale…

— Dick Cavett

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was…

— Janet Evans

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

— Nastassja Kinski

I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied…

— Czeslaw Milosz

You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the…

— Alyson Ackman

Getting outdoors is always fun. In the summertime, I like to go waterskiing and swimming; during the winter, I'll sometimes go jogging…

— Josie Ho

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

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range…

— Mila Kunis

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like…

— Amanda Beard

In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts -…

— Diana Nyad

I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there…

— Margaret Atwood

It would be pleasant to believe that some of Lincoln's DNA is actively swimming around in somebody's soup, but all the evidence…

— Allen C. Guelzo

What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things],…

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist…

— Rick Riordan

On really hot days, I try to motivate friends and family to come into the pool for an aqua jogging session which…

— Dylan Lauren

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

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying…

— Tracy Caulkins

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

— Eric Shanteau

Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.

— Jackie Coogan

“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time…

— James Clavell

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best…

— Diana Nyad

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

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and…

— Tenzin Palmo

I was a lifeguard for three years, when I was around 16-years-old. So for my first job, that was awesome, working on…

— Maryse Mizanin

I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

— Woody Harrelson

It's really special for me just to have that one little moment where I claimed I was the best in the history…

— Caeleb Dressel

My face looks tanned and taut because I have been swimming under the sun at Otters Club every day. I have also…

— Chunky Pandey

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

— Jeff Kinney

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our…

— Winston Churchill

Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.

— Jimmy Carr

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world…

— Lil Wayne

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And…

— Demetri Martin

I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple…

— Flume

My brother and I like to swim. We've been doing that our whole lives. Swimming and jump rope are two of the…

— Jermall Charlo

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

— Rick Riordan

Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool…

— Denis Leary

I really live for the racing, the moments in those races where everything slows down even though you're swimming as fast as…

— Jessica Long

Though I do not know much swimming, I am glad that both my children are getting better at it day by day.

— Thalaivasal Vijay

I am not really a fan of beaches or lying by swimming pools, and as I have quite sensitive skin, the sun…

— Mathew Horne