Swimmer Quotes

Swimmer Quote of the day

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.

I'm a really good swimmer.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.