Swimming Quotes
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Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.
Darell Hammond -
Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.
Jason Momoa
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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.
Jo Brand -
I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
Xavier Cugat -
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
Taylor Lautner -
Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.
Ian Thorpe -
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
David Miliband
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
Ted Danson -
Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
Adam Peaty -
The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
Katee Sackhoff -
There are a lot of young swimming fans that are on Instagram, so I try to respond or post things that they like.
Katie Ledecky -
I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.
August Krogh -
Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
Natalie du Toit -
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
Boris Johnson -
I'm still swimming.
Ian Thorpe -
I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
Ian Thorpe -
A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go through hours of intense training. Afterward, I'd be famished, but I had a two-hour trip home before dinner. When I did my hardest workouts, I often ate less; I was too tired to think about food.
Summer Sanders
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
Courtney Love -
Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.
Chris Klein -
I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath