Swimming Quotes - Page 18

• 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 can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities

  Grant Hackett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Color, Cold, Pool

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Cinema, Love Poetry

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• We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

  Alan Thicke

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Darkness, Curls, Flesh

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself. We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy. The land holds stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Humility, Reflection

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.136, UNM Press

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• I always love using the girls behind the blocks to create even more energy. It's so much fun and so much energy to be with these girls, I love training with them and it's just so much fun to race next to them. I try to use that as much as I can.

  Alyson Ackman

  Girl, Fun, Block

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• You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

  Norton Juster

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Sea

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• I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

  Alice Hoffman

  Loyalty, Block, Real

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• Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Alex, Lessons, Kevin

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Heart, People

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• I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

  Lea Michele

  Hiking, Biking

  "Exclusive: Lea Michele On Helping Others, Rachel's Future, and Her Own Style". Interview With Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

  Debbie Meyer

  Motivational, Fun, Believe

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• I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

  Ryan Lochte

  Fashion, Clothing Line, Focus

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• I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

  Ryan Lochte

  Fashion, Clothing Line, Design

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• The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

  Ryan Lochte

  Nba, Nfl, Community

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• There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

  Ryan Lochte

  Fun, Dancing, Hanging Out

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• I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

  Theophilus London

  Snowboarding, Skiing

  "Theophilus London Doesn’t Have a Driver’s License, But He Drives Around Anyway". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2013.

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• You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

  Kinky Friedman

  Hell, Mainstream, Accomplish

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• I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.

  Ryan Lochte

  Sports, Passion, People

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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