Swimming Quotes - Page 3

• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

  Anais Nin

  Moving On, Pain, Joy

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• Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Sea, Language

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  Don't count the days, make the days count.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2011

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• Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Winning, Swim

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No37: Mark Spitz wins seven swimming golds" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Race, Body

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• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Water, Essentials, Funny Swimming

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• Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

  Lauren Oliver

  Air, Water, Missing

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, September 29, 2011.

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• I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

  Megan Jendrick

  Motivational, Success, Athlete

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• Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Lakes, Clothes

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Anniversary, Patriotic, Wife

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Sunny Afternoon

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  W. C. Fields

  Life, Innovation, Risk

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• Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

  Merlin Olsen

  Basketball, Crowds, Nobody Cares

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• I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Sports, Ocean, Water Skiing

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• Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

  John Oates

  Music Business, Things To Do, Hard

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Failure, Learning

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, New York, Children

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Confidence, Believe

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• You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams.

  Dara Torres

  Inspirational, Dream, Optimistic

  Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.3, Three Rivers Press

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• Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.

  Drake

  Confidence, Money, Humble

  Song: Forever

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