Quotes By Esther Williams

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.