Swimming Quotes

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

I did quite a bit of running before, but it's getting really cold so I joined a gym. I do a bit of swimming and I'm starting to do yoga again.

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.

Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.

Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.

I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

We're all a little tired.

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

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.

I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.

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

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities.

You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not           harmless. You are not                     breathing.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King].

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.

Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.