Mark Spitz Quotes

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• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Swimming

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

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Never
  • Swimming
  • Awards

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

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Remember
  • Enjoy
  • Swimming

• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Life
  • Swimming
  • Fishing

• Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Real
  • Money
  • Success

• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • European

• All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Art
  • History
  • Tradition

• I love going swimming. I spent a lot of time in North London in summer going to Hampstead Heath and swimming in the ponds there. It's so beautiful; we're so lucky to have that in London.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Respect
  • Deep
  • Television

• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Water

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Swimming

• Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Never

• I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Swimming
  • Passionate

• I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Singing

• When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Up
  • Single
  • Mountain

• I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Women

• The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • River

• With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Song

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

  Mark Spitz
  • Swimming