Swimming Quotes

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

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.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

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

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

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.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

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

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.