Composure Quote by Amanda Beard

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to…

— Katie Ledecky

In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing,…

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

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

— Jessica Long

“The Swimmer's Advantage: 1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't…

— Summer Sanders

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and…

— Stephanie Rice

When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you…

— Oprah Winfrey

I am not a swimmer so a bit of phobia is always there with water stunts.

— Jasmin Bhasin

“Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day,…

— Victor Davich

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won…

— Ian Thorpe

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

— Johnny Weissmuller

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap…

— Allan McNish