Swimming Quotes

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

  

  Ian Botham
  • Think
  • Struggle
  • Swimming

• 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
  • World
  • Organization
  • Ocean

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

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Remember
  • Enjoy
  • Swimming

• I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.

  

  Pattie Maes
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Swimming

• It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Level
  • Stamina
  • Drumming

• As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Sports

• 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
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Football

• When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Hair
  • Summer
  • Swimming

• With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll be honest, I don't like running. I don't like biking. I don't like swimming. I do it to raise money. But, now that I'm in this sport, I want to see how far I can push myself. What makes me tick is that pain you feel when you do these ultramarathons. I love knowing that everyone's suffering because I know I can suffer just a little bit more. I can take a lot of pain.

  

  David Goggins
  • Money
  • Running
  • College

• 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
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Food

• The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • History
  • Funny
  • Relationship

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

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Passionate
  • Swimming

• 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.

  

  Amanda Beard
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• 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
  • Myself
  • Training
  • Pool

• 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
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Wearing

• I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Air
  • Swimming

• Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Fun
  • Die
  • Swimming

• 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
  • People
  • Friends
  • Encouraging

• The first time I did everything was in Paisley - the first time I went to the pictures or the bowling or the ice rink or the swimming baths.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Time
  • Swimming

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

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Never
  • Swimming
  • Awards

• I try to do something every day. I lift weights at least three to four days per week, and I'll intersperse that with cardio. For example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'll run and do heavy lifting, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I'll spend two hours lifting weights, as well as something like swimming.

  

  Misty May-Treanor
  • Something
  • Example
  • Heavy

• 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.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • Joy
  • Expectations
  • Swimming

• 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.

  

  Kirsty Coventry
  • Swimming
  • Endurance

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