Swimming Quotes - Page 15

• Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

  Bob Marley

  Water, Tough, Too Deep

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• I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

  Anika

  Beautiful, Beach, Surfing

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• Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Swim

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Spring Music," (p. 34), 2000.

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Strong, Heaven, Flying

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.41, Macmillan

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• I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

  Voltaire

  Animal, Perfectly Good, Essence

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• I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

  Ray Lewis

  Sports, Yoga, Wrestling

  Twinlab Interview, www.facebook.com. May 16, 2011.

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• An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Loss, Winning

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Thinking, Animal, Sea

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Ice

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• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.

  Eric Bana

  Children, Rip, Sound

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April 2011.

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• We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ocean, Lakes, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “A Man Without a Country”, p.12, A&C Black

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• I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Soup

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• Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Workout, Humor

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. "Get off of me." "But I love you." "I don't know you, kid."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Daughter, Children

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• Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Last Laugh '05". Comedy, Music, 2005.

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• The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Falling In Love, Safety

  Source: www.parenting.com

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Winter

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• You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Focus

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.

  Paul Rankin

  Running, Cycling, Body

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You've got to put a lot of hard work in and it's not just in the swimming pool. You've got to look after yourself, you've got to sleep well and you've got to recover between the sessions, whether that's resting or getting the right food inside you. I always try to get the best out of myself and strive for perfection.

  Liam Tancock

  Hard Work, Sleep, Perfection

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

  Bethenny Frankel

  Summer, Yoga, Makeup

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2015

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• Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.

  Liam Tancock

  Years, Splits, Want

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Swimming has given me a lot. It's given me a respect for people and different cultures around the world when I've been competing abroad. I've learnt many life skills and met so many friends around the world that I might not have had otherwise. I'm focused and driven and I guess swimming has made me that way.

  Liam Tancock

  Skills, People, Different

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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