Swimming Quotes - Page 23

• I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

  Jamie Dornan

  Running, Used, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

  David Walliams

  Sports, Running, Pain

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

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• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said: "You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognises you." I said: "What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?"

  Eddie Marsan

  Clothes, Wife, Scene

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  Albert Shanker

  Education, Use, Pay

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• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Thinking, Rocks

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• One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

  Dave Matthews

  Sweet, Rest In Peace, Stars

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• Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

  Julius Malema

  Zuma, Pool, Jacob

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• I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'

  Deborah Levy

  Book, Home, Writing

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• I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Work Out, Trying

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• Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Two, Auctions

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• Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Strong, Perspective

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• I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Years, Program

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• In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Summer, Drinking, Glasses

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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  Jack Dee

  Feet, Bricks, Praying

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Fishing, Skills

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Reading, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

  Simon Sinek

  Risk, Safe, Pool

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2011

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• I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.

  Bobby Hackett

  America, Champion, United States

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't...that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Fishing, Water

  Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.175, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Play, Saws, Firsts

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• Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Running, Hate, Yoga

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• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  Cameron van der Burgh

  Careers, Whole

  "London 2012: Swimmer hits back at Australian media over 'cheat' story", www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

  Ryan Lochte

  Motivational, Fun, Athlete

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