Swimmer Quotes - Page 5

• The water doesn't know how old you are.

  Dara Torres

  Swimming, Water, Old You

  "Dara Torres on Goal-Setting at Any Age". Interview with Linda Childers, spryliving.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

  Shane Gould

  Sports, Blessed, Australia

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• There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Folks

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• The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

  Esther Williams

  Sports, Space, Champion

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• I don't know what's more embarrassing in this country, that Michael Phelps fell from the graces for smoking marijuana or that you looked up to a swimmer in the first place?

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Marijuana, Smoking

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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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• There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

  Kirsty Coventry

  Motivational, Stronger, Titles

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• The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Eye, Sea, Water

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• You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

  Ryan Lochte

  Athlete, Winning, Loses

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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• Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

  Lewis Gordon

  Water, Pioneers, Would Be

  "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

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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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• Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Broken, Records

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• Sweet baby Jesus, Blue Eyes was... He was gorgeous in all the ways that made girls do stupid things. He was tall, a good head or two taller than me and broad at the shoulders, but tapered at the waist. An athlete's body - like a swimmer's. Wavy black hair toppled over his forehead, brushing matching eyebrows. Broad cheekbones and wide, expressive lips completed the package created for girls to drool over. And with those sapphire-colored eyes, holy moley...

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Sweet, Baby

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.

  Owen Feltham

  Hope, True Friend, Recovery

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• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

  Olive Schreiner

  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"

  Hilary Swank

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Good swimmers at length are drowned.

  George Herbert

  Length

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.319

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sea

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• If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

  Peter Boettke

  Swimming, Gold, Legs

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• Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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• But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks.” “Excuse me?” “You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be all technical about it. He still had living sperm in his juice." Cat and Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Juice, Want

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• She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sarcastic, Powerful, Sea

  "A Writer's Notebook". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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• I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

  Apolo Ohno

  Avid, Age, States

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