Swimming Quotes
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I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.
Eric Shanteau
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Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
Eric Shanteau
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There are indeed people with ulterior motives who don't wish Chinese swimming well; they even don't wish Asian swimming well. We cannot let these people's plans succeed.
Sun Yang
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I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.
Sarah Dessen
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A lot of black people think they never learned how to swim and turned out fine so they don’t need to teach their children. Obviously there are a lot of flaws with that argument, but if that’s being repeated to a whole generation – that swimming is not for you – then obviously it’s going to trickle down.
Alice Dearing
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Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
Simon Sinek
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My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here.
Bob Bruce
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Being a poster girl for black swimming is exciting, because genuinely I love the sport and I want to see as many people doing it as possible.
Alice Dearing
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Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.
Terence McKenna
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I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.
Saoirse Ronan
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A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
Melody Carlson
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I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.
Rebecca Romijn
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A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.
Missy Franklin
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I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
Mia Hamm
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I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.
Katerine Savard
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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
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For people who believe that they can't do it, I hope I'm an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.
Simone Manuel
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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
Merlin Olsen
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Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom.” If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.
Ed Stetzer
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I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.
Brie Larson
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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.'
Eric Shanteau
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
Esther Williams
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Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Esther Williams