Swimmer Quotes

79 Swimmer quotes by 67 unique authors

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone… — Amy Van Dyken
I don't know what's more embarrassing in this country, that Michael Phelps fell from the graces for smoking marijuana or that you looked up to… — Daniel Tosh
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger. — Nelson Mandela
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports… — Esther Williams
People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer… — Kristanna Loken
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown. — Charlie Munger
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to… — Georges Duhamel
I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name… — Sharni Vinson
I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer. — Amanda Beard
People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I… — Amanda Beard
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is… — Unknown Author
I'm a really good swimmer. — Will Ferrell
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth… — Margaret Sanger
Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer. — Amanda Beard
My boyfriend is not a swimmer! — Katie Hoff
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. — Ryan Lochte
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport. — Ryan Lochte
I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school. — Katharine McPhee
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool. — Michelle Obama
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. — Apolo Ohno
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back… — Michael Phelps
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? — Steven Wright
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… — Virginia Woolf

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