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- Nov 07, 2020
Swimming Quotes
Most Famous Swimming Quotes of All Time!
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up here in Hawaii, I loved swimming, surfing, and having fun in this paradise we are lucky to call home. But I gradually realized that I was actually happiest when I was doing things for other people, doing things to protect our water, oceans, and beaches.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I do not know much swimming, I am glad that both my children are getting better at it day by day.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a very competitive little kid. I did swimming very competitively, downhill skiing very competitively. Everything was competition.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have chance to buy swim suits because I did not go swimming at all. If I ever get a chance to buy one, I want to try one in white or with ribbons.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.
- Fernando
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have some synchronized swimming moves in my back pocket from camp when I was 8. I can really wow people at a pool party.
- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 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.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been able to buy a house with a swimming pool and everything we do now is completely transformed compared to what it was like when I was an electrician.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a house with seven-and-a-half acres of land and a swimming pool wasn't really on my agenda when in my old job and while I haven't spent too much money on cars or any other expensive gadgets, I did treat myself to a JCB digger.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in the Tigris to cool off after reporting in the city the caliphs called Madinit al-Salam, the City of Peace. A year later, I realized I wouldn't be taking any midnight dips - Madinat al-Salam no more.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
- Walking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I did everything was in Paisley - the first time I went to the pictures or the bowling or the ice rink or the swimming baths.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been swimming recreationally about five times a week for years just at the Y.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to go hiking. I like to go rappelling, swimming, biking. I go boogie-boarding. I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To achieve fitness one need not hit the gym. One can always opt for any sport: yoga, jog, swimming and much more. The idea is to do something that not only burns calories but relieves stress as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Compliments
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020