Swimming Quotes - Page 28

• It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.

  Brittany MacLean

  Fun, Chill, Relaxed

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• Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Sleep

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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Men, Sky

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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• When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo and I was having problems coping with that image.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Thinking, Kind, Pool

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

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• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  Gail Simmons

  Rivers, Tree, Moss

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• One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Mother, Goal

  Source: nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com

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• The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

  Helen Cresswell

  Sports, Reason, Drowning

  Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Drinking, Thinking

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mind, Body

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.242, Penguin

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• You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.

  Alyson Ackman

  Morning, Winning, Race

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• There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?'  And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Boys, Two

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". September 19, 2008.

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• I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

  Shimon Peres

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.

  Brittany MacLean

  Girl, Morning, Racing

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• Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

  Ray Lewis

  Loss, Winning, Power

  "Ray Lewis Delivers Pregame Speech To Stanford Basketball Team" by Brian Floyd, www.sbnation.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite all you feel when your head is under water.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Morning, Rivers, Ducks

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Wind in the Willows: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Animal, Skulls

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Honesty, Inspirational Life

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• It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Exercise, Drug, Trying

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

  Charlize Theron

  Inspiring, Women, Surprise

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 27, 2015

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• Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

  Henry George

  Thinking, Two, Bird

  Henry George, Kenneth C. Wenzer (1999). “Our Land and Land Policy”, MSU Press

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• I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Sharks, Know How

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• A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

  Missy Franklin

  Fun, Huge, I Love Swimming

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• I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Hilarious, Food

  "The wit and wisdom of Mariah Carey". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

  David Levithan

  Cadence, Language

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.44, Macmillan

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