Swimming Quotes

• 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

• I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Chance
  • Acting
  • Gymnastics

• Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• 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

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Swimming
  • Naked

• You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Ifs
  • Hungry
  • Salmon

• I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Gym
  • Swimming

• When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Competition
  • Swimming

• 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

• 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
  • Nice
  • Crazy
  • Swimming

• Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Water
  • Air

• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Sun

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  

  Jim Moran
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Swim

• 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
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Summer

• 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
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Swimming

• I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me - so long as it's something where I'm not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Live

• 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
  • Sleep
  • Pool
  • Medical

• I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

  

  David Walliams
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • Father

• I used to overpack a lot and sometimes even forgot vital pieces of clothing, such as my swimming shorts and sandals. I'm much better now. I only take what I know I'm going to wear or use and always double-check my suitcase so I don't have to rush to the nearest clothing store when I unpack at the hotel.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Swimming

• Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Trust
  • Sports

• 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
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Wish

• I'm still swimming.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Swimming
  • Still

• The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • College
  • Goal
  • Swimming

• We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

  Gail Devers
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

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