Back again Quote by Michael Phelps

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to…

— Katie Ledecky

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

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

— Jill Clayburgh

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a…

— Ian Thorpe

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics.…

— Ian Thorpe

I just get creative with my training. I can be doing swims individually, or with one other person. I can be doing sprints. I…

— Jeremy Stephens

I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of…

— Antonio Brown

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and…

— Stephanie Rice

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

— Alan Rickman

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge…

— Ted Turner

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to…

— Sophie Pascoe

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

— Michael Johnson