Swimming Quotes - Page 20

• I think we all have a lot of room to drop and our takeovers were really safe so tonight we're still going to be safe but a little bit more risky than we were this morning and see if we can get our hand on the wall for a medal.

  Brittany MacLean

  Morning, Wall, Thinking

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• I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.

  Brittany MacLean

  Team, Thinking, Relays

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• I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

  George A. Sheehan

  Forever, Lasts, Damn

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

  Michael Jordan

  Player, Kind, Wanted

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• I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Song, Husband, Hate

  "Melissa McCarthy Goes Over the Top" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 2013.

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• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

  Amy Tan

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.142, Penguin

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• Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

  Niall Quinn

  Football, Goldfish, Tides

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• Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be retained. And this is not difficult: it is just that we have not tried it, that's all. It is like swimming: if you have not tried it, it looks very difficult; it looks very dangerous too. And you cannot believe how people can swim because you simply drown! But once you have tried a little bit it comes easily; it is very natural.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Mean, Sleep

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• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Thinking, People

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• I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Sorry, Believe, Giving

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• Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

  Thomas Woods

  Thinking, Water, Liberty

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• I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

  Hal Porter

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• You can't put a limit anything.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Cheerleading, Athlete

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• I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.

  Rebel Wilson

  Stress, Night, Mermaid

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• He who does not hope to win has already lost.

  Jose Joaquin de Olmedo

  Hope, Winning, Doe

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• The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, Firsts, Opinion

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• When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Men, Boards, Pool

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• Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

  Michael Phelps

  Mom, School, Golf

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• This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

  Michael Phelps

  Birthday, Sports, Past

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• It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Dream, Happenings

  "Sports Biz" with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 18, 2008.

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• Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

  Michael Phelps

  Bigs, Deals, Big Deal

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• I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

  Michael Phelps

  Trying, Personal Life

  "More Questions with Michael Phelps". TIME Interview, content.time.com. April 19, 2007.

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• I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Needs, Looks

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• I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Fitness, Thinking

  "Michael Phelps' Top 5 Fundamentals for Pulling Off the Impossible" by Henrik Edberg, www.positivityblog.com. August 22, 2008.

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• I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

  Tyler Perry

  Boys, New Orleans, Sea

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