Best Swimming Wisdom
597 Swimming quotes by 451 unique authors
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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
— Mark Twain
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Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.
— Percy Cerutty
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My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here
— Bob Bruce
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Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.
— Ian Thorpe
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I look at him as some other person I need to beat.
— Ryan Lochte
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Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
— Benjamin E. Mays
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I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and…
— Brooke Burns
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I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting…
— Colin Firth
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I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
— James Garner
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I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.
— Maria Menounos
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If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you…
— Steve Guttenberg
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I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very…
— Betty Ford
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Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way…
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.
— George Mikes
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless…
— Stevie Smith
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I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that…
— Michio Kaku
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I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food…
— James Hilton
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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
— Michael Phelps
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If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.
— T. Harv Eker
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I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t…
— Candy Darling
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
— Seth Godin
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In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering…
— Sakyong Mipham
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Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
— Simon Sinek
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
— Bob Hope
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