Swimming pool Quote by Buzz Aldrin

I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically…

— Mary Roach

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

— Michael J. Massimino

“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

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

— Jill Scott

“That minute, that tiny second when you hit the water flat on, you lose your breath. All the air flattens out of you -…

— Kirsty Gunn

“The swim requirements were even harder. We had to be able to swim a mile and tread water for fifteen minutes, in full flight…

— Scott Kelly

The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time.…

— Leanne Shapton

“Author compares the impact of biases to his experience as an average swimmer who overcame a considerable fear of water. While the swimming was…

— Shankar Vedantam

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

— Melody Beattie

There's something about it to me, the feeling of the water, and feeling, I don't know, equal, and like everyone else. Which is kind…

— Jessica Long

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

— Mark Spitz

“We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy…

— Lynne Hugo