Swim Quotes - Page 18

• Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

  Carson Kressley

  Jumping, Challenges, Challenge Yourself

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

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• When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

  A. A. Milne

  Rivers, Stones, Stuck

  Joan Powers, A. A. Milne (1996). “Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Sarcastic, Beer

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• I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• 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

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

  Drake

  Success, Humble, Swimming

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• I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Eye, Sea

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• If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Workout

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• I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.

  Sophie Edington

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Summer, Dark, Eight

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.20, Macmillan

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Cat

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

  Cyril Connolly

  Wicked, Atheism, Body

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

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• I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Water, Drowning, Stills

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• To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Months, British

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• To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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• Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.

  Holly Madison

  Summer, Growing Up, Fun

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Real, Party, Political

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1910). “Under Five Reigns”, London : Methuen

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