Swimmer Quotes
79 quotes by 69 authors
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I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
— Kirstie Alley
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I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
— Amanda Beard
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It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer…
— Leisel Jones
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along…
— Stephen Batchelor
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I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41…
— Dawn Fraser
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I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.
— Shane Gould
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People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try…
— David Steindl-Rast
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If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank,…
— Peter Boettke
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Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
— Estella Warren
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Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove…
— Brooke Burns
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Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you…
— Joan Sutherland
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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed…
— Albert Pike
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We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a…
— Ryan Lochte
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The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the…
— Dawn Fraser
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Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the…
— Lewis Gordon
Who Wrote These Swimmer Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 79 Swimmer Quotes, led by these top contributors: