Swimming Quotes

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

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.

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Only foolish fishes wish to fly!

All right, " Shannen says slowly, tucking a lock of dark brown hair behind her ear. "Why did you glue that dolphin upside down?" Okay, so I'm a little distracted. "He's doing the back stroke.

When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

Not knowing that I am in the ocean of love, I am swimming to reach the island of love.

Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don’t realize we are swimming in love.

Everyone plays guitar alone, but we can play side by side.

I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface.

The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish....

How lonely it is!To be drowning, in a placewhere everyone can swim.

Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self.

It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.

I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me, swimming in the sea of myself, learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand.

Most men will not swim before they are able to.

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.

As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change.

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

Birds do not attend flight schools

We are always swimming in the ocean of love, but most of the time, we just don't realize it.

We Pisceans know how to swim without water

the cocoon like water, the labored trance and rhythmic breath of lap swimming had done their work, had unwound the restless feeling into nothingness.

Swimming is simply moving meditation.