Achieve Quote by Leanne Shapton

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power…

— Robert Baden-Powell

There's something about it to me, the feeling of the water, and feeling, I don't know, equal, and like everyone else. Which is kind…

— Jessica Long

“To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is…

— David Levithan

“We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy…

— Lynne Hugo

“Water doesn’t shape like clay when you move it with your hands. I've spent a lot of time swimming, and none of my motion…

— Jarod Kintz

“Swimming is simply moving meditation.”

— Cesar Nikko Caharian

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

— Melody Beattie

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm…

— Demetri Martin

I think swimming's hard because I can't float.

— Erinn Smart

Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

— Jason Momoa

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

— Stephanie Rice

I don't swim! That's like athletic.

— Chloe Sevigny