Swimming Quotes

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

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

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

I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

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

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

I'm still swimming.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.