Swimming Quotes - Page 26

• What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things], and they are just excited to have weird scenes to do or weird things to do, like playing deaf, or playing sick, or swimming in the water.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Play, Sick

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.

  Delphine Arnault

  Sports, Practice, Tennis

  Source: wwd.com

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• If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

  Robert Higgs

  Floating, Paddling, May

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• I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

  Stephanie Rice

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

  Stephanie Rice

  Sports, Hardest

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• Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.

  Tim Ferriss

  Stuff I Like, Dancing, Three

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

  David Mamet

  Ugly, Facts, Sinking

  David Mamet (1987). “House of Games: A Screenplay”, p.7, Grove Press

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• Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

  Denis Leary

  Tuesday, Wife, Twenties

  Denis Leary (1992). “No Cure for Cancer”, Anchor

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• Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

  Billy Connolly

  Feelings, Let It Go, Trying

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• The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Astronaut

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As an actor you always feel like you're swimming upstream.

  Bradley Whitford

  Like You

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing: Part 2. Inauguration". www.empireonline.com.

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• It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been swimming and running my entire life, and I've been given so much support the last few years in cycling, that I've been able to improve. And I'm still improving and still absorbing that support to help me get to be the best that I can be.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Running, Cycling, Years

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• You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

  Michael Stipe

  Beach, Ocean, Feet

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• I love to watch movies, go swimming and just chill. Fun stuff relaxes me.

  Jessica Andrews

  Fun, Relax, Watches

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• I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Bed, Breakfast

  Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.130, Music Sales Group

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Boys, Two

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• Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.

  Roseanne Barr

  Running, Emotional, Challenges

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts

  Grand Puba

  Nuts, Daddy, Hip Hop

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• It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Relax

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• It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

  Summer Sanders

  Brother, Wanted, Involved

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• If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

  Dave Barry

  God, Whales, Stupidity

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• I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Blow, Men, Blood

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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