Swimming Quotes

• 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

• You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Energy

• I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  

  Xavier Cugat
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Running
  • Swimming

• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• 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
  • Swimming

• When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • People
  • American
  • Pool

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• 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
  • Sports
  • Gold
  • Swimming

• I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Morning
  • Swimming

• When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'

  

  Charlie Bewley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Dad

• I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Book
  • Water
  • Green

• I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

  

  Chuck Klein
  • Different
  • River
  • Fishing

• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Home
  • Business
  • House

• Women in the public eye and on TV are often scrutinized for how they look so I know how easy it would be to fall into the trap of taking on board this negativity. The healthiest way for me to deal with it is by being fit and healthy through activities like swimming, which helps me focus on what my body can do rather than what it looks like.

  

  Gabrielle Nicole "Gabby" Logan
  • Women
  • Fall
  • Focus

• I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Want
  • Go

• Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Running
  • Like
  • Always

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Training

• I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Remember
  • Swimming

• For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Energy
  • Smart
  • Swim

• Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

  

  Peter Finch
  • Success
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

  

  Anika Noni Rose
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Gold

• I think marathon swimming makes you work more on your upper body, your abdomen, trapezius, and your arms. When you finish a race, your arms and abdomen are more tired than your legs. Your legs are tired because you've just sprinted for the line, but at the end of the race, when you start to relax, it's your arms that hurt.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Tired

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