Swimming Quotes - Page 19

• With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.

  Ryan Lochte

  Able, Calories

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• My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

  Jo Brand

  Fun, Sea, Pool

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• I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

  Ryan Lochte

  Thinking, Mtv, Ideas

  "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.

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• You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

  Loretta Lynn

  Salmon, Hungry, Spawn

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.43, Vintage

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• Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

  Gene Tunney

  Basketball, Sports, Running

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• I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

  John Goodman

  Football, Passion, College

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It's grueling. There's nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you're doing a hard workout, you're throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.

  Diana Nyad

  Workout, Hard Work, Night

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• Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

  Dale Carnegie

  Practice, Water, Speak

  Joseph Berg Esenwein, Dale Carnegie (1915). “The Art of Public Speaking”, Home Correspondence School

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• I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

  Jesse McCartney

  Peanut Butter, Pool, Peanuts

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• People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Morning, People

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.13, David C Cook

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Tonight

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• Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

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• Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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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, Media

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• I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Desire

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• I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

  George Brett

  Golf, House, Three

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• You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Games, Squash

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

  Ric Keller

  Hunting, Years, Fishing

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• Without goals, training has no direction.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Goal, Training

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• It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Moving, Recovery, Race

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• Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Years, Events, Sometimes

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• We weren't too stressed out, this morning we just knew that if we had strong, good swims we would be fine, so it was actually a lot of fun.

  Samantha Cheverton

  Strong, Morning, Fun

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