Swimming Quotes

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

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 have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

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

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.