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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

The way this animal was built, it must have been swimming. Swimming animals have a tendency to be dark on top and light on the bottom.

Peter Wagner

We're looking forward to some serious swimming this weekend.

George Philpott

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Abraham Maslow

Bowling Green is about on the same level as us right now and have had some close, tough loses this season. This meet will come down to who has the best swim on that day and we are looking forward to a tough meet.

Brian Vereb

There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car. People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss.

Carolyn Beck

Absolutely amazing. To come back from a shoulder injury from last year where he couldn't swim, it was amazing.

Dylan Evans

That tells us many have died, they fell through before they could swim.

John Grandy

We were swimming with only three girls because Woodburn is still on vacation.

Sean Whalen

We always know he's going to perform -- there's no question about whether it will be a good swim or a bad swim for him. Everybody's looking forward to seeing what he can do at Nationals.

Tyler Harris

It will be tough swimming at the 3A level. We can finish high, but it's tough going at that level. We are young, so we are shooting at top three in the district. This is our best team yet and it's going to get better. We are young and I expect good things.

Tara O'shea

That was my best time ever. I had a good start. I felt like I was first in the water. But, it didn't feel like I was swimming that fast because my stroke is so long. It's an advantage to be tall.

Sam Palser

[Many of the venue's staff lost their homes and belongings, including arena assistant executive director Matt McDonnell.] I had a lot of friends who ended up swimming out of their houses, ... They're waiting for trailers now. I've got four families living with me.

Bill Holmes

It's exciting for all the right reasons. I get tired of hearing, 'You guys always win.' We had a shirt a couple of years ago that said, 'If it looks easy, it's because it isn't.' These kids work hard all season and they earn the right to swim fast.

Jim Brower

A lot of the divers have also decided to swim with us this season. It depends on which days the meets are, but they'll be able to choose which they want to do every week.

Charlie Bowman

I didn't want to have to swim in that water.

Daniel Yanes

Brooke Higgs is going to be a really strong contributor, ... Brooke has done basically anything I've asked her to, and this summer she swam for the Aggie Swim Club as well.

Tracy Campbell

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Phillip C. McGraw

The Recreation Department is very proud of its safety record with swimming pools. We want to educate people. We want everybody to have a great time at our pools.

Pam Henry

I'm doing a lot of child research now because of my son. I've taken him to swimming class, and I go to Mommies and Me, and... I get all the parenting magazines. I think with women who are doing it all for the first time, and are not quite my age, there's this process of discovery.

Deidre Hall

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer

Everyone did best times. And whether it's for first or third or for 15th place, all we can control is how fast our kids swim. All our kids swam great.

Tony Demuro

Each person has his own safe place-running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.

Barbara Gordon

Prior to this, he never thought twice about swimming in college. Now he's thinking about it. That's something that's cool. He's come here in a tragic situation and come out better.

Brian Suter

When I was swimming, I think the most we had was eight guys and I've been a coach with just seven guys, and they were some of the best swimmers in the state, but it wasn't enough, numbers-wise. Now we have 26 boys and that's the most we've had in a long time and maybe ever.

Tony Demuro

Right now I don't know if I have dreamt about this or not. But when you are in the ocean you must swim. Being on the race for the Oscars, logically I want to win.

Pedro Almodovar

Auburn has been a pretty good feeder for swimming excellence.

Chris Plonsky

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Todd Apo

There are only four events but with heats, semi-finals and finals there are 11 races, plus three more with relays so 14 races over six days is a lot of swimming.

Stephan Widmer

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

Debbie Meyer

He told me he was going to swim from this dock to that one.

Antoinette Path

My swim was sort of mediocre, but I think it was made up by a fantastic ride by Neil and an even better run by Simone, who has been unwell, and she has bounced back. We are very happy to have won two events in a row.

Andrew Steele

She was bummed out with swimming and was thinking about quitting. Dana was only interested in swimming miles with the long strokes. She did not have any desire to learn the short strokes. I talked with her about changing that, and she had a wonderful attitude with it. She really loves swimming and wanted to fall in love with it again.

Ann Hughes

Everything's getting wet. I looked up and here's this guy from the apartment complex swimming toward me.

Connie Kalter

They held their own. They swam through across the board. They'll be ready to swim in a couple of weeks (at sectionals).

Rob Rooney

Blessed art though, a monk swimming.

Miles O'brien

When I grew up, swimming pools were a big thing, but people now can afford to put up a $300 above-ground pool at their house. There is just not as big a market for pools anymore.

Jeff Hutchinson

We wanted to show we could swim with the big schools.

Judd Haney

The competition level is different. Before high school, I'd usually be going against swimmers who were around my speed in all the heats. Now, I find myself swimming against people who are either a lot faster or a lot slower than me.

Sarah Vandish

We started to talk about it at 16. We were involved because as the bigger the boys got into swimming, the harder it was for Michael to compete. He was too great a swimmer to not be at the top.

Patricia Prout

Every time you line up you have up to eight of your competition swimming against you. I think you can use each other to get out what you want out of it.

Liz Coster

Everyone is really pumped up. The sectional is the fastest meet of the year. Everyone is pretty shaved and tapered. We are expecting to swim our fastest of the year.

Steve Klabak

I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming Pool, one of the busiest in the region.

John Alden

My fondest memories aren't necessarily the swimming part, they are the friendships with the team, the bus rides, the pasta dinners. Since my freshman year, the girls I swam with have been my best friends. They have been there to motivate me.

Caitlin Seed

Mom does a lot of lake swimming. I do a little bit but it ruins your stroke.

Stephanie Uecker

They knew the sharks were swimming at the top and they were trying to get them to swim deeper. It would be more stressful to the (remaining eight sharks) to take them out.

Connie George

Information can be useful if you can do something with it. If your commute goes across the American Legion Bridge, there aren't that many other options -- you can go through downtown Washington or you can swim. We don't recommend swimming.

Lon Anderson

It's really about relationships. The core activities ? the swimming pool, the tower ? those are fun things the kids like to do, but they come back summer after summer because of the friends they make.

Ally Barnes

Our girls were not afraid to go up against them in the races and swim.

Jason Hafner

The team is really coming together. We are getting ready for the Catholic Conference championship and a lot of the kids are swimming personal best and sectional times.

Brian Buckley

This would have to be the toughest moment of my life, whether to swim an event at the Olympic Games or to look after one of your best mates.

Craig Stevens

Swimming and biking helps gives your body a break.

Doug Tumen

Don't do extra biking, swimming, tennis, to replace what you are not walking or running. You really need to rest the body.

Heather Hedrick

Mr Machado was here before and he helped developed our age-group swimming... we were Caribbean champions for a couple years.

John Eyre

They gave me something to drink and helped me compose myself because I was pretty startled. I still am. It's not every day you find somebody submerged in a swimming pool, dead.

Tony Revely

The plotters of yesterday, the plotters of today ... they swim in the water and think we don't see their backs but we see them.

Laurent Gbagbo

In swimming, when you head into championships, it gets worse before it gets better because when you start resting up, you get a bit sluggish the last couple of meets before it.

Nort Thornton

I'm not going to lie. I was starting to wonder if it was ever going to get better. If I kept going, there was a possibility of tearing it (rotator cuff). I was definitely scared if I tried too hard, there was a chance I would have to have surgery and never swim again.

Meghan Walsh

After a while, you're just swimming up stream. You're trying to juggle people. And we got away with guys playing with four fouls probably a lot longer than we should have.

Luke Day

There is so much competition from 52 schools (in Class AA) and four people go into each event. There are 220 girls and that is a lot of competitors. We have the largest swimming district in the United States and that includes Florida, Texas and California.

Mike Schneiderlochner

First time I tried to 'egg beater,' I thought I'd drown. I was always bored with swimming. It was never my passion. Anything would be better than looking at the bottom of the pool for two hours every day.

Forel Davies

I usually have rough time in the fall and swim a lot better second semester and I've been gradually dropping times to where I want them.

Mackenzie Steger

They're going to see how well other teams swim, other people swim. They can only get stronger from swimming against people like that.

Daniel Glover

We would sail to a particular location and stay there for 24 hours at a time, and one or two of these pups would swim up to us, and the poor little guys would just bark at us for hours on end. It was really awful. I wouldn't go outside.

Carin Ashjian

Since we're young, it's a good experience to have during the season. The more experience you have swimming against top quality teams and top quality kids, the better you're going to get.

Jason Hafner

Thorpe said they were bad swims but, for anyone else, that's a world-class performance. You don't swim 1:46 consistently unless you're in good shape.

Dean Price

They're not pointless. I feel they have a place in my personal experience. Like, 'Lake Swimming' — I like the second verse of that song. It's just this dream world about swimming in a lake, but everyone swims in a lake. Everyone knows what that's like.

Laura Veirs

Eric swam really well and is looking forward to swimming much better at states.

Cheryl Ciorra

PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.

Ambrose Bierce

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

Michael Phelps

Our performances in the relays today were a testimony to the Stanford tradition to be at your best when swimming for the team.

Lea Maurer

We hope a death like this that (affects) a family so much for so long can help another family. We want to get as many little children as we can to learn how to swim.

Jack Burke

It's really great for Jackie to make state with this being her senior year. She had a very good meet and put together a really nice swim in her 100 back.

Sheron Ruble

This is an incredible race for spectators because you basically can see the athletes seven times from vantage points at Lovers Point. From there, you'll be able to watch two loops of the swim, four loops of the bike race and three loops of the run. That's one of the greatest aspects of this event.

Terry Davis

She's very involved in gymnastics. She's very athletic, she loves to swim and jump around and she uses my bed as a trampoline.

Jane Waldman

My own dog likes swimming. It's hard to predict, though. Make sure that this is an activity your dog wants to do. Don't assume because it's a Labrador that it will want to swim.

Patrick Leblanc

Finals were always the best part of the meet. You'd march out for the final and the top seed would get to pick the music. It's kind of sad. My dad couldn't see me swim in my last high-school meet. He was at work. A lot of my friends were going to come up.

Julie Sablik

People should not be under the illusion that the city is in a position to shoulder the financial burden of a new swimming center, ... We just don't have the money.

Larry Barnett

We handed out gifts and care packages, and some of the students went swimming with the kids.

Andy Neary

My calendar here is full. I have two or three things every day. Softball, swimming, tennis, basketball. I go back to Maine in the summers and the only thing I have on my calendar is a couple of doctor's appointments.

Doug Springer

Ben and Blake are two very talented newcomers. Ben has an incredible work ethic. He's always here, always working hard. Blake works here as a lifeguard and we conned him into swimming.

Charlie Bowman

Unless we swim really fast, it may not turn out too good. We're swimming in one of the fastest regions in the state and we're hoping to hang in there in the top two. If we come in with our game faces on and shaved down, we could have a chance to swing the meet. We've got a shot.

Craig Harris

Swimming has changed drastically for Clay over the years. My hopes for Sarah are that she continues to have the spirit that she has. She's unbelievable. She's not one who is 'all about me.' She's very team-oriented and she's not cocky whatsoever. That makes me really proud.

Janie Vandish

That's a significant difference from the nation's ethnic makeup. By 2050, only 50% of the U.S. population will be white. Swimming needs to reflect that. But there are cultural walls to break through.

Pat Hogan

I describe more as a market pressure than UPS problems. It's kind of tough to swim upstream in this period.

Scott Flower

It's the first time he won't be swimming in the kiddy pool as far as this race goes.

Jonathan Vaughters

We were disappointed this weekend. We swim better at home. We need to learn to be a better road team.

Jeanne Fleck

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Ever since I've been swimming she's the best coach I've ever had. She's been doing it so long she knows how it works.

Kirk Massee

It seemed like someone was coming in and swimming when they weren't there. They would see wet footprints on their deck.

Tony Revely

When I first started I only swam during the high school season, so I didn't get much out of it, ... Then last year I really got serious and buckled down. I started swimming year-round and just bloomed, I guess.

Carl Miller

They offered extra swim times and different promotions to encourage the use of the indoor pool, but it's just hard to get people to go indoors.

Roger Adams

The kids swam extremely well. So much of swimming is mental now. If you're not physically ready, you're not going to be there. They had to change their approach and they did. You're swimming against the clock and trying to swim your personal best. That's all you can do.

Ray Davidson

They were non-scoring events. We spread some things out. We gave guys the opportunity to swim events they would not normally do. It was a nice change of pace. In that respect, it was a nice meet for the boys. We were able to swim a variety of events and still be successful.

Kevin Bott

We came out swimming tough. This team is really starting to bond. They know what they want to accomplish.

Ken Carlson

Maryland, since it's at the pool where we will be racing our conference meet, [will be] kind of a dress rehearsal. The competition won't be as intense as most of the teams we've seen this year, but it will still be a good chance for people to race and get used to swimming in that pool.

Stefan Hirniak

Swimming allows me to exercise, release frustration, meet other people and gain exposure to places I may not have otherwise had the chance to visit. It makes me feel proud to be a part of something good.

Anthony Ross

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Nastassja Kinski

For a freshman to swim that fast in the 500, you know you have a special kid on your hands. He was hoping to be seeded No. 1...He wants to be the freshman that wins the event.

Larry Baeder

The big thing for us was this was the last championship meet before the state tournament. We wanted to swim well and get some best times to keep us on that high going into the state tournament.

Kevin Mahoney

Being the first year, every swim is almost a new record.

Chris Robinson

Maybe we did more than we should have (in practice) in terms of yardage and intensity, but then again, it will help us in the future. I'm excited to see how fast we could swim once we're rested.

Miguel Molina

Every one wants to un-seat us, and that's understandable. We're hoping to add another (title), but we're going to have some good competition out there. There are a lot of good girls out there swimming, and we'll see how the cards fall.

Glenn Meeden

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Tom Maurer

Both on the guys and girls side, tomorrow is where it counts. Those swimmers got to go a little bit easier today. The ones where we needed to have them go and swim fast, those kids swam fast.

Jason Hafner

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Cedric Hardwicke

It was one of those swims that felt really good all the way through. It didn't hurt at all. I had really good splits. I'm really, really happy with that swim.

Kara Lynn Joyce

They are realistic. Things like that happen, but they don't like to go anywhere and be given a swimming lesson.

Frank Busch

I wasn't really a swimmer before I took on this film, so I started training in a swimming pool, mostly working on my stroke so that at least it would look plausible that this guy could swim the Channel.

Peter Mullan

I'm very excited for the opportunity. Dowling has a tradition of athletics and swimming is no exception. I hope to sustain that momentum.

Dan Lake

Coaching at Stanford was a dream come true for me, ... It was everything that I could have dreamed possible. There were so many thrills and wonderful experiences, and so few disappointments. I consider myself blessed to have been able to be in my position at Stanford for 17 years and to have been a collegiate swimming head coach for 29.

Richard Quick

I think they swam very well across the board. No one had a bad swim and there was a lot of quality races.

Peter Linn

Swimming worldwide has changed dramatically and reached new professional levels. My strategy is to build on young talent and I will have to make some tough decisions in the next two months, allowing no room for sentiment or past achievements. My focus is strictly on the future.

Dirk Lange

We have a lot of young swimmers on the men's side. Athletes take longer in men's swimming to make a difference, and this team will continue to grow as they gain experience.

Michael Litzinger

I think I can swim even faster, but I can't complain. I did as well as I could. I am happy to be able to compete against all these phenomenal swimmers from around the state.

Jeff Montague

We weren't completely focused and after our swims yesterday, we knew we had to pick it up today. We were swimming for ourselves today.

Laura Stark

It was hard work and dedication. I swim year 'round and I have been lifting more weights recently than I ever did. I know that to do well, I had to work as hard as I possibly can. This means my hard work paid off.

Ryan Weitzel

If they swim slow, we are where we need to be. Right now they should be exhausted and sleeping more than anything else.

Francie Renfro

We are talking to individuals, both the competitive ones like swimmers and the non-competitors like coaches and instructors, also groups like swimming clubs. We want to imbue the association with a strong sense of conduct in all its dealings.

Mark Joseph

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

James Hilton

The men also had a strong 100 freestyle with our first sub-50 second swim in this pool. There's been little turnaround time for our senior team after the worlds and they've responded to the challenge.

Pierre Lafontaine

Jake is so versatile. He can swim a number of events for us.

Brent Newman

That was an outstanding swim for Nicholas, especially under those conditions.

John Sultan

I try to swim my own race for the most part. I try to stick with them for the first 75 (yards), then save enough that I can sprint to the finish.

Josh Eaton

Tim Tudor and Stephen Taylor are new to swimming, but they've dropped their times and are in the top five in the 50 freestyle.

Danielle Tanaka

I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year.

Brian Payne

What are you doing now? ... Just going to school and swimming?

Amanda Beard

You don't have to be a fish to study underwater archeology or to swim. You don't have to be Jewish to be interested in Jewish literature.

Charles Isbell

We don't go through life with it all being smooth sailing. ... We all understand situations where you know it's swim or drown. It's a choice you have to make, and sometimes we surprise ourselves, when we actually make that choice and start swimming, with how well we can do it.

Charlize Theron

They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream.

Carolyn Adams

We found a little natural water but no river, ... With the size of the hole we dug, that would have made for one hell of a swimming pool.

Brad Stone

I want to go biking; I want to swim.

Harley Gregory Jr

Overall we had a tremendous day. It's one of our fastest years in the last 10, there is just a tremendous amount of fast swimming going on now (in Texas).

Matt Franks

There's a lot of neat things that is involved in this. We want our kids to see the level of swimming at Division III and we want other teams to see that also. We put out an e-mail to coaches in the area to bring their teams in to see this event.

Kyle Lott

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

Frida Kahlo

He's a swimming legend. I was excited to meet him.

Jonathan Hill

It seems like I'm the one everyone is after. There is added pressure, but it's beneficial pressure that makes you swim faster.

Matt Diehl

Terry backed up and did a swan dive into the water and was swimming after the fish and the rod. It's the only time I ever saw a fish catch a man.

Curt Gowdy

Catch me and let me dive under, for I want to swim in the pools of your eyes.

Annie Lennox

Our MAC in-season record does not reflect our team's talent and drive. Though it can be frustrating during the season, watching other teams swim fast and knowing that we've worked harder than them.

Jessie Guinness

We all get loose, relax a bit more, since we're around friends. Taking the team down to state, even though not everybody's going to swim, just having our friends there is going to help.

Daniel Glover

I don't really care what record it was, so I was happy it was the relay. It was my last swim in high school ever, so it was like a great finale to four wonderful seasons.

Brittney Iverson

I knew she would do well. She?s swimming better times than she did in the high school season. She continues to improve.

Sue Brown

I thought I was dying. I mean, if you can't swim and you're locked in a box and you don't know anyone's coming, you'd think you were dying, too.

Sandra Ranew

Presley Bard probably has the most potential of anybody in the class. She will help in anywhere from the 50 to the 200 backstroke and will swim sprint freestyle up to 200 freestyle. She also comes from one of the best teams in the Terrapins from Concord.

Ray Looze

We're not going to make another step up like that this year. Minot's too tough. But it's like that every year. We're hoping to swim our best times at state. If we do that, I'll be happy.

Brent Newman

We don't think cubs could swim that far -- they lose heat much faster than adults.

Jon Aars

Obviously we beat them. And Fenwick is a very good team. We have been swimming hard teams lately. We swam Naperville Central last week and that is one versus two (ranked). So it has been pretty draining.

Ken Carlson

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark said he was going to swim to it. I didn't say, 'no,' I didn't say, 'I'm with you.' I can't swim too well. At that point, I did the back float, he swam, and the next thing you know the helicopters came and got us.

John Eberle

It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing.

Mark Andrews

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air….

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's sad to see Munster come off the board, but at the same time it's nice to see people get up to swim here.

Robin Tobias

Quite a few of our kids joined the club after they found out what other services were here. We like to mix up other training activities for the kids, like cycling and weight lifting and using the speed bag. They can do all of that here when they aren't swimming.

Helen Houlihan

It was great to be in a race where the world record was set. We've achieved so much this week and it was great to finish off the meeting swimming as a team. Although we didn't medal we are still ending the week on a real high. I've no complaints with sixth.

Caitlin Mcclatchey

We're trying to raise a lot of money for Easter Seals and the reason why we're doing it is when Rick was smaller he used to go to the swim program, all the different camps, and we just feel it's payback time for all the things Easter Seals has done for Rick.

Dick Hoyt

We swim well on the road, but we also swim well in our own pool. Other teams tend to struggle a little bit in our pool and hopefully that'll be the case on Friday.

Bob Thomas

British swimming, team staff and the vast majority of Britain's swimmers remain committed to Bill and are looking forward to more success on the road to Beijing.

David Sparkes

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Bob Thomas

We started opening on Sundays for swimming because swimming is such a big thing.

Terry O'connor

We have a lot of motivation. We're currently No. 1 in the country and for some guys, it's the last swim of their (regular season) college careers.

Nort Thornton

That's roughly equal to 432 Olympic-sized swimming pools every hour.

Dan Hitchings

Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these.

James Graham

When the Australians walked out, the crowd went nuts, and when we walked out, the crowd went even more nuts. I can't describe how amazing that was. Three thousand people were here rooting for the two strongest swimming nations. I'll never forget that, and I was glad to be part of it.

Michael Phelps

We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 years old.

Jeff Collins

Princeton Hospital appears to have everything in the world against it and not a lot going for it. They are swimming upstream in a fast-moving current.

Tim Cook

He's probably in the top 10 for his age group. In terms of New Mexico swimming, he's a freak of nature. Last year there were a few kids who could challenge him in this state, but now he's in a class of his own.

Rich Brion

Swimming is always very individual, but it's nice when it's a team sport. I like seeing everyone on the team improve.

Jason Mclaughlin

I don't know what events I'll want to swim next year.

Leah Gingrich

I guess it came naturally. We both swam the same events. Our passion from swimming comes from our mom (Ann).

Katie Cutrell

We might not win an event, but we'll win the meet. That's what we did last year. ... That just shows how many great kids we have swimming and shows our depth, which is the key for us.

Matt Watson

Wow! Albert Miller was ready to swim today. His back (leg) on the 200 IM is really strong.

Kevin Kinel

They've worked really hard all season long and have probably improved more than any championship team I've coached — mainly because they've had so far to go. A good portion of them couldn't swim at the beginning of November. They're all doing very well and I think they're ready to swim their best.

Deb Mandeville

We got into the lifestyle of not having a nine-to-five job. We would work for a while, then go swimming in Green Lake, or take a long bike ride.

Carol Hickner

The entry of Lifetime Fitness has been good for Columbia in that it was the incentive for CA to make many of the improvements we have made (to our health clubs and swimming pools).

Rob Goldman

The movie is not all swimming and that was a huge goal to show outside the pool.

Ian Crocker

I know everyone is pumped up for conference. There is really no pressure to swim our fastest times at conference. We set everything up to swim our fastest times at sectionals.

Matt Diehl

I think he's been doing a great job and is a great addition to Truman State University and the swimming program.

Jerry Wollmering

We know we can still count on him to help us in our efforts to build and strengthen Canadian swimming as an ambassador and as a mentor to young athletes.

Pierre Lafontaine

The pool has been a big help for us. It's a big benefit having a playground for the kids and swim lessons. At swim lessons, the lifeguards helped one girl who was afraid to jump in 5 feet, now she swims laps in 5 feet.

Matthew Murphy

I am confident in our ability to swim these routines well, after swimming them back-to-back this weekend. Saturday and Sunday were two hard competition days in a row, so it was a great test of the team's endurance. [I was] very excited about the improvements the team made this weekend.

Heather Olson

We were disappointed we didn't place higher, but you can't control how other people swim. It's surprising when you qualify in 10 of the 11 events and not to place higher.

Shari Walling

Only part time. We can't keep up between the basketball, swimming and Girl Scouts. And soccer is starting soon.

Jane Reed

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

We had heard some rumblings that it might close, but no one thought it would. We're kind of in a state of shock right now. They need to practice this week, they have sectional swim meet at the end of the week.

Mark Mcguire

Whether it is 25 meters or 50 meters, when he's done, Jordan has won. We've always taught him to do his best. A chance to swim in the national Special Olympics is very exciting.

Lisa Cooper

Palestinians will point across the road to an Israeli settlement where they see a swimming pool being filled and they point to their own community where there's barely any water at all -- and they'll express a great deal of anger about it.

Michael Klare

Frankly, this is a darn good economy to start with. He's inheriting an asset, not a liability. It's not as if he's swimming upstream.

Jim Wilcox

The Division I schools really don't respect us until they realize we are winning. We just swim and our team speaks for itself.

Tyler Harris

We will still have a beach, and you can do everything you've always done, but you just can't swim.

Kelly King

This money goes specifically into that fund and cannot be used for anything else other than a new swimming pool.

Paul Stamm

All they want to do is be left alone, sun and swim. At this point, all we have is crocodiles being crocodiles.

Officer Jorge Pino

I want to swim well at [Ohio State]. They are a better team across the board and beating them is unlikely, but I would still like to go down there and swim fast.

Peter Linn