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I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

— Joan Didion

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

— Natalie du Toit

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

— Dave Eggers

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

— Aaron Peirsol

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

— Charlaine Harris

I sit down in a chair, and I take off my two heavy little prosthetic legs and I crawl on my knees to the…

— Jessica Long

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

— Jill Scott

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

— Eric Shanteau

I wanted swimming to be something that I loved, something that I was motivated to do for myself.

— Caeleb Dressel

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

— Michael Phelps

My every thought in a pool as a kid

— Katie Grabil

I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.

— Erika Eleniak