Top Swimming Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Swimming quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of George A. Sheehan
I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
- George A. Sheehan
Collection: Swimming
Image of Dara Torres
The water doesn't know how old you are.
- Dara Torres
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Image of Julia Gregson
She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there
- Julia Gregson
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Image of Marc Levy
Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.
- Marc Levy
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Image of Esther Williams
No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.
- Esther Williams
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Image of Julia Glass
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.
- Julia Glass
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Image of Bradley Whitford
Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."
- Bradley Whitford
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Image of Ritchie Blackmore
I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.
- Ritchie Blackmore
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Image of Tony Parsons
I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.
- Tony Parsons
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Image of John Shelby Spong
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
- John Shelby Spong
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Image of Thomas Cahill
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.
- Thomas Cahill
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Image of Catherine Anderson
Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.
- Catherine Anderson
Collection: Swimming
Image of Thomas Woods
Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.
- Thomas Woods
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Image of Amanda Beard
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt 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 peoples standards.
- Amanda Beard
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Image of Robert Higgs
If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.
- Robert Higgs
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Image of Bob Bruce
My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here
- Bob Bruce
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Image of Kieren Perkins
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.
- Kieren Perkins
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Image of Benjamin Alire Saenz
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
- Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Image of George Polya
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
- George Polya
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Image of Peter Carey
Swimming always cleans your soul
- Peter Carey
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Image of Katerine Savard
My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It's not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it's really different from the 100 fly.
- Katerine Savard
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Image of Brock Yates
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.
- Brock Yates
Collection: Swimming
Image of Tera Van Beilen
Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.
- Tera Van Beilen
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Image of Carol Browner
Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.
- Carol Browner
Collection: Swimming
Image of Peter Boettke
If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?
- Peter Boettke
Collection: Swimming
Image of Leanne Shapton
The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.
- Leanne Shapton
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Image of Ludivine Sagnier
When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo and I was having problems coping with that image.
- Ludivine Sagnier
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Image of Dennis Adonis
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
- Dennis Adonis
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Image of Andrzej Kolikowski
If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
- Andrzej Kolikowski
Collection: Swimming
Image of Julius Malema
Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim
- Julius Malema
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Image of Natalie Coughlin
Without goals, training has no direction.
- Natalie Coughlin
Collection: Swimming
Image of Natalie Coughlin
I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.
- Natalie Coughlin
Collection: Swimming
Image of Cameron Crowe
I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
- Cameron Crowe
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Image of Mary Daly
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
- Mary Daly
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Image of Grand Puba
Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts
- Grand Puba
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Image of David Duchovny
Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.
- David Duchovny
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Image of Romare Bearden
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
- Romare Bearden
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Image of Bobby Hackett
I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.
- Bobby Hackett
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Image of Janet Evans
When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself that] every time I swam, it was going to get easier-and it did. When you're working toward a fitness goal, you just need to start. It's not going to be pretty, your body is going to scream at you, but each time you'll get better.
- Janet Evans
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Image of Hari Kondabolu
Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.
- Hari Kondabolu
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Image of Tim Rice
Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.
- Tim Rice
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Image of Louis J. Mordell
When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
- Louis J. Mordell
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Image of Beth Orton
I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.
- Beth Orton
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Image of Bill Gross
When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
- Bill Gross
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Image of Devin Townsend
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'
- Devin Townsend
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Image of Lewis Pugh
I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.
- Lewis Pugh
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Image of Lewis Pugh
I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.
- Lewis Pugh
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Image of Kinky Friedman
You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
- Kinky Friedman
Collection: Swimming
Image of Jillian Lauren
I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.
- Jillian Lauren
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Image of Suzy Kassem
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
- Suzy Kassem
Collection: Swimming