Swimming Quotes · Page 6

I don't even know how to swim!

— Lea Thompson

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

— Nate Parker

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

— John Oates

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

— Mariah Carey

For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.

— Gareth Hock

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

— Karl Pilkington

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

— Lewis Black

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

— Aaron Peirsol

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

— Mark Spitz

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

— Pope Francis

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an…

— Charles Darwin

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are…

— Michael Crichton

On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's…

— Mollie King

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone…

— Ludivine Sagnier

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it…

— Jack Dee

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into…

— Arthur Smith

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

— Shia LaBeouf

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about…

— Kieren Perkins

But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten…

— Saburo Sakai

To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they're made…

— Celine Sciamma

Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or…

— Anne Lamott

As an older woman now, I feel the pressure more, I feel all those different aspects, I'm more aware of that. Whereas…

— Ellie Simmonds

Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is…

— John Steinbeck

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent…

— Max Heindel

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was…

— Ron Perlman

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

— Matthew Healy

Massages and swimming are feel-good activities which are both mentally and physically relaxing.

— Jimi Manuwa

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

— Eric Shanteau

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

— Apolo Ohno

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

— Brian Tracy

My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here

— Bob Bruce

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

— Natalie du Toit

It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim.

— Anonymous

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

— Tommy Lee

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

— Jesse McCartney

When life gets you down you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming.

— Anonymous

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

— Michael Phelps

“He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.”

— Jennifer Lane

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

— Michael Phelps

Swimming was truly a way that I just felt that freedom from all of those surgeries and the pain.

— Jessica Long