Swim Quotes

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.