Swimming Quotes

• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Air

• I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.

  

  Joe Lo Truglio
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Space

• I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.

  

  Alia Atkinson
  • Happy
  • Control
  • Single

• The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Sacrifice

• I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • School
  • Summer
  • Grandpa

• I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

  

  Arturo O'Farrill
  • Up
  • 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

• Just do some kind of workout. Doesn't matter if it's going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming - you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Pool

• Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I'm back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I'm home, too.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Great
  • Home
  • Beach

• Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

  

  Johnny Weissmuller
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I know April, May and June are a few unbearable months, and working out in a gym and sweating in such dirty hot, sticky, humid weather puts me off. The best way is to swim. I feel so fresh and rejuvenated after swimming, and I believe it's one of the best mode to fitness during summers.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Believe
  • May
  • Gym

• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  

  Alexander Dale Oen
  • Good
  • Small
  • Control

• Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Country
  • Sin

• A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Lovers
  • Mermaid
  • Lad

• I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't describe how proud that makes me. I just want to keep working hard and hopefully just inspire more youngsters to keep swimming and encourage South Africans to become a winning nation.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • World
  • Believe
  • Proud

• She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Swimming
  • Salmon
  • Minnows

• I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Swimming
  • Hour
  • Ate

• It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Running
  • Rock
  • Flying

• I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Important
  • Career
  • Enjoy

• In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Cold
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• I love the sea. Swimming, fishing, going out in my boat - that gives me tranquility. Nowadays, I love to read as well. Historical fiction is what I discovered for myself.

  

  Paco de Lucía
  • Sea
  • Boat
  • Fishing

• Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

  Mark Spitz
  • Winning
  • Swimming

• Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Funny

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