First Quote by Jessica Long Download Open image “When I started I only swam freestyle, and did just freestyle in my first Paralympics.” — Jessica Long ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare First Freestyle Just Only Started
I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles. — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke. — Colin Jost Copy Share Image
After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that. — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer. — Victoria Arlen Copy Share Image
I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming. — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs. — Victoria Arlen Copy Share Image
In the 10 years I've been involved in freestyle, I've obviously had a lot of fun. The competitions are a blast, and I look… — Travis Pastrana Copy Share Image
I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible. — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
There was a time I used to focus on just being skinny, and now I really think about how can I be strong. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Each year the excitement and the build-up for the Paralympics Games has grown more and more. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
I have trained so so hard to be where I am at - I train with Olympic athletes and if I'm struggling to get… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
There was so much pain. Every time I grew, I had to go back in for a surgery. And I remember just being really,… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Everyone had a loss or lost something during COVID. I allowed myself to take long baths, watch cheesy movies, and just tried to slow… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
In 2018 I really hurt my back, my lower back, and it's been a couple of years where we finally found out that I… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
I'd love to see the 200s, the 50s, the 400 IM. I would do so many events. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
I think here in the U.S., we have a hard time accepting disabilities. That's why I think it's really good to share and let… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Swimming forced me to deal with the things I wanted to escape. It helped me work through a lot of feelings and frustrations, because… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
The idea that I got to be on a team with Trischa Zorn - as a 12-year-old - is wild to me. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Putting on shoes with my prosthetic legs is still hard for me, but at the end of the day, I'm just putting on really… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
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I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
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When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
