Swimming Quotes - Page 16

• Dedication and time management are two of the biggest things. I hate being late for anything. If anything, I prefer to be ten minutes early rather than thirty seconds late. I'm also very dedicated and I want to do my best in everything I do. I believe swimming has helped transfer that into my life as well.

  Liam Tancock

  Hate, Believe, Dedication

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Thinking, Air

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• Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Goal, Overcoming

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• I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

  Summer Sanders

  Brother, Team, Lap

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• Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.

  Liam Tancock

  Guarantees That, People, Water

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.

  Michele Montas

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Cereal, London Olympics

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• Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.

  Karen Armstrong

  Car, Discipline, Dancing

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Men, Years

  Written in the diary, December 31, 1868.

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• Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.

  Dick Morris

  Believe, Rocks, Waiting

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• Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doubt, Purpose, Swimmer

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

  Brian Tracy

  Overcoming, Impossible, Failing

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.31, Jaico Publishing House

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• England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

  Henry James

  Men, Clothes, England

  Henry James (1947). “The American Novels and Stories of Jenry James”

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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

  Adam Schein

  Kids, Thinking, Talking

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• Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Self, Reincarnation

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• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, People, Mind

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• I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

  Strom Thurmond

  Home, Army, Race

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• Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

  Suzy Kassem

  Animal, Moon, Men

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• Body hair. You know when you're swimming as a kid and you want to crawl on your dad? None of us went anywhere near him. 'My god, a beaver! Everyone out of the pool!

  Jon Stewart

  Dad, Kids, Hair

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• I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Survival, Way

  "Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

  Artie Lange

  Half, Lasts, Hours

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• You can't beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven't done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it.

  Katie Price

  Sex, Names, Barns

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

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• I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.

  Dana Gould

  Felt

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• My family is number one in my life. I'll blow off writing or just about anything to make sure I take my son to preschool or watch him at his swimming lesson.

  Henry Cho

  Family, Writing, Son

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