Swimmer Quotes

• I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

  Trevor Dunn

  Bird, Lizards, Orphan

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• Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Past, Years

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

  Amanda Beard

  Mom, People

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• I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

  Kirstie Alley

  Long, Arms, Lasts

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• I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

  Esther Williams

  Movie, Long, Suits

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• People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

  Kristanna Loken

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

  Paul Tsongas

  Butterfly, Swimming, Political

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

  Barry Sheene

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

  Katharine McPhee

  School, Middle, High School

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• You can't put a limit anything.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Cheerleading, Athlete

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• The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

  Georges Duhamel

  Sea, Land, Horizon

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

  Amanda Beard

  People, Want, Reason

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

  Amanda Beard

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strength, Perseverance, Adversity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012

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• I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

  Michael Phelps

  Change, Successful, Swimming

  "The Legend of Michael Phelps". abcnews.go.com. August 14, 2016.

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• If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

  Kieren Perkins

  Swimming, People, Overcoming

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• There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

  William S. Burroughs

  Boys, Rivers, Peaches

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.114, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Swim

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• Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

  Joan Sutherland

  Sports, Technique, Singers

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• I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Sports, Swimming

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• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

  Bruce Lee

  Swimming, Land, Water

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