Quotes about Swimming

My expectations for this year are to work hard, swim fast, and be in the hunt for the league championship.

Darrin Millar

Seeing the swans swimming, the herons wanted to do it too. But the poor herons drowned and died, and floated with their heads down and their feet up.

Guru Gobind Singh

We're all going to sink or swim together. The people who don't fix their problems will hurt the people who do.

Skip Patterson

I think it's important, at all levels of swimming. We want it to be a place for kids of all ability levels, all desire levels.

Thad Schultz

Well, it has been one of the biggest in town. We doubled in size every year. A lot of activities for kids. We have field trips to the zoo, the Science Center, swimming once a week and crafts.

Glen Stipes

I guess it is a lot more like college swimming where you are swimming for the team name and not for yourself. You are swimming for the team, and the people around you. Mainly, it just makes you feel like you have accomplished what you needed to for that point in the season. You just want to be able to swim well.

Katie Suhr

I think as a team goal, it is one of our last meets and we need to keep our heads up for the end of the season. A lot of people will be trying for best times which will get us ready for MACs and I hope we swim well.

Mackenzie Steger

I figured everybody there was a winner, whether they won a medal or not, ... You take a guy in his eighties who can still swim the length of a pool, and in my mind, he's a winner.

John Wagner

I've just been laying around the last couple of days. It was good to get in and just get wet again. I'm very happy with the swim. It was a heat and it was very comfortable.

Brett Hawke

I think if you're looking to cut time, it's better that you not swim against anyone. It helps you concentrate more.

Brandon Ladendorf

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes.

Nastassja Kinski

I had one spin around and swim right at me and I kind of did a dance over the top of him, ... I don't know exactly what took place because you can't really see once that water starts splashing around. After I got away from him, I recaptured him.

Greg Long

He used to be out on the boats all the time. He has good days and bad days because of his arthritis. He can't really run anymore, but he still swims. He loves swimming and it helps his hips.

Raegan Arnold

I think students have made their choices already. People will most likely continue to play basketball in the east wing, and there will be an increase at CRCE. Those who wish to swim laps in pools will go to Freer or Kenney.

Jayne Deluce

I like Madison, I really do, ... But it's economically divided. And you shouldn't have to live on the west side - which has a number of privately operated neighborhood pools - to have your kids get swim lessons.

Jim Morgan

Our team is young and kind of inexperienced with larger meets. They're not used to swimming against 18-year-olds. It's a different atmosphere. But they did well. I'm proud of them.

Lesly Hainsworth

It?s been 24 years since Bristol has won a conference championship (in swimming) and we?re too greedy to share it with anyone.

Ryan Burkhardt

And the sides are soft, so it's very easy for children ages 2 and 3 who can't swim to lean and flip over it and drown.

Don Mays

I strongly feel we need this. He's giving 6 acres of land to a swimming pool, playgrounds ….

Don Barnett

It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little bit better and they're a part of it.

Alan Anderson

It's designed to take a swim in the South.

Marianne Cusato

I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event.

Ian Thorpe

At this point we don't want to give the public the impression that anybody should be swimming there.

Jim Howe

[Unlike football, there are no polls.] That's one good thing about swimming, ... Only the clock judges you. There's no computer error.

Klete Keller

I saw my tight end got held a little...I thought he would swim through. I want that (last) throw back.

Jared Zabransky

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

I have been a member of the swim club for six years now. The main reason they are doing this is so they could improve the environment to make it more aesthetically pleasing and clean up the whole area. It wouldn't be hurting anything.

Diane Rodriguez

A lot of pools, both in-ground and above ground have been sold because people want to be the first on the list. As warm as our springs have been with the summer last year, we had a lot of people that were in their swimming pools by May.

Tim Mccormick

We're swimming in gasoline right now. But this is not a sustainable level.

Severin Borenstein

We had a bad start [on the relays]. (Minnesota was) ready to swim. We weren't quite as ready.

Jeanne Fleck

We?re willing to meet the needs that we create. What is the nexus between building a new home and creating the need for a performing arts center and a swimming pool?

Jerry Bunin

The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in which they swim. What something like the Iraq war does is increase the number of bases you have to deal with and the sea they have to swim in.

Juan Cole

A group of children were asked, 'What does Memorial Day mean?' And they said, 'It's when the swimming pools open.'

Togo West

If we continue with the pathetic proposal for $20 million a year, it would take well over a century, well over 100 years, to get rivers back to where they are safe to swim in.

Curt Johnson

It's good to finally swim against another team instead of each other. Those 6 a.m. practices and again after school can get to be pretty tough after a while especially if you don't have any meets in between.

Renee Miller

You can only blame yourself when you mess up. In basketball, it's a team effort. Everyone is together for a win or a loss. In swimming, you get to see how much you've improved.

Lindsey Miller

I had quad bypass surgery in 2003. There are three of us in (two) age groups that have had quad bypass surgery. I was getting shortness of breath. In swimming you know when things aren't right.

Bob Peck

The team is swimming really well right now.

Frank Busch

Nowadays, very few children actually learn to swim. Instead, they learn to play in the water.

Chuck Goodman

We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to win this. We knew we could beat Austin, but the guys would have to swim their best.

Steve Burt

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.

Michael Phelps

The year after the Olympics is always an interesting year. The Australians are getting better and better. . . . Each team is pushing each other to get better. It's good for the sport of swimming and it's good for both teams.

Natalie Coughlin

It's always a bit of an anxious time. In swimming it comes down to one event. There's not a whole lot of room for mistakes. You've got one shot, and that's it. It's an intense time, an intense preparation. I'm really pleased with how we look in the water right now.

Arthur Albiero

We had outstanding swim from some of our senior girls. Emily Edwards had career-best times in the 50 fly and 100 breaststroke and Kim O'Neill did the same in the 200 IM and 50 free.

Matthew Williams

The [Antarctic] swim itself was extremely beautiful and harsh, ... The harshness of knowing that if you stay in the water a moment too long you can go into cardiac arrest. There's a knowledge that you really are on edge here, and that you can push yourself too far.

Lynne Cox

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Liv Ullmann

Brian popped off an incredible swim.

Ben Thayer

Getting the recognition is rewarding. It's not like the football players. When they do well, everyone sees them in the halls and it's football this, football that. Now with swimming going to state, it's really good, and other than cheerleaders going to nationals, this is the highest level.

Tiffany Hernandez

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

David Smith

I think it's a good start for my short course swimming and it is even better for the longer distance games.

Leisel Jones

When you swim in a designated beach, you know it's water that is being tested.

Mark Steck

I do not think I want to go back. We had to swim under dirty water, where bodies were floating. It was something. If I can find a place here, I'll stay. We lost everything.

Commissioner Dwayne Taylor

Swimming with the dolphins is one of the things most people have on their lists to do at some time in their lives.

Billy Hurley

[1:50: The next shot features all five players lined up and jumping into the pool. Shakur, citing a bum ankle, refuses to jump.] You can't swim, can you? ... I'll make it.

Rashad Mccants

The technique is like water skiing. You want to be at a pretty good speed, otherwise it's pond swimming rather than skimming.

Corie Stone

It's a great day for a swim in Spirit Lake! ... If three cups of coffee didn't wake you up, this will.

Charlie Crisafulli

A few short months you are going to have seniors that will be swimming in the pool. Teens playing basketball in the basketball court, hanging out in the lobby, you'll have young and old alike in our fitness centers working together.

Kevin Fitzpatrick

[NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.

Spalding Gray

It's a fun, made-for-TV event. We need to get more swimming on TV.

Neil Walker

My dad noticed we could swim without lessons. It seemed to be something I had a talent for.

Carrie Chykaliuk

The designers say it's not a fad. There's a hat for the swimming pool, picnics, weddings. Everything, you name it, there's hats for it.

Pearl Norris

I won states last year, and I really wanted to get the gold. I'm swimming the 100 free (today) so I really want to go home with that gold.

Kelsey Grushecky

I tell them every time they get up on the blocks to use the opportunity and make every swim count. Whether we're up or down, we want to come up with our best performance.

Jim Brower

Katie exceeded all our expectations and for Matt to gain a spot in a New Zealand team before swimming a final was pretty special.

Jon Winter

The issue for the market is just to relieve some of the fears we have. The fundamentals have been superb, earnings have been above expectations, corporations are swimming in money. But we have a litany of fears that have affected and infected investors.

Milton Ezrati

So far, everyone is swimming very fast. This should be an exciting meet and we are ready to go.

Leonard Kraus

I've watched him since he was swimming in junior high. He's always used the strength in his arms and legs to get through the pool.

Bob Johnston

He's been swimming and is cantering away again now. People said it was a tired fall but it wasn't. Tony McCoy was toying with the other horse. We were all disappointed afterwards and I did not speak to the media but ran down to the stables to make sure that the horse was all right.

Robert Lester

To see all of our guys swim and do awesome is just great.

Pat Daurio

We're in the toughest region. So it's going to be difficult for us. We're going to have to swim fast to get into the finals. We're just going to have to keep doing what we're doing and hope for the best.

Jesse Cole

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

John Cleese

We had a kid who swam in the league last year who was 10 years old, and he played football. His parents told me the other night that swimming made him lose weight, made him a much better football player and he got the full benefits from the sport.

Thad Schultz

I really felt good during the swim. I had my stroke count down and just focused on my race strategy and racing my race.

Tara Kirk

I like how they're really different. I can go to swimming and work my butt off and then go to play practice and relax and have fun.

Steph Wangeman

I saw my tight end kind of getting held. I thought he would be able to swim through. ... That was totally on me.

Jared Zabransky

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision.

M. F. K. Fisher

There was a lot of team camaraderie and companionship. I really liked how everyone was on the sidelines and screaming. It was an intense meet. It's great for everyone even if they didn't swim any varsity events. Everyone stepped up to the plate. They did as expected or better.

Lesly Hainsworth

We wanted to make sure he was not swimming at us. We have seen a lot of gators, but never any crocodiles.

Darren Kenyon

We will swim together or sink together.

Trevor Manuel

We want to encourage all children to have lessons and I hope there will be a time when every child is able to swim. I think £2.60 is cheap at the price.

Jim Davidson

Everybody had their best swim tonight (in the relay).

Matt Hayes

I am just so happy for Markus. I really think he's got a real good chance of winning both races, but he knows he's got to swim really well.

Rhonda Wilson

For any Galesburg swim team, this is by far the best they've ever done.

John Willy

I've been swimming competitively since I was 5. My mom used to be more strict about me going to practice and being involved in it. But now, she says it's all up to me whether I continue to do it.

Sarah Vandish

See that parrot fish? He likes to swim up and see people. So if he doesn't see any, he jumps up (from the water) to take a look.

Leonard Sonnenschein

I'm sure it must be a very moving experience to see all these beautiful, incredible animals swimming around. And then we go and put a fork in them in the cafeteria. It's just unnecessary.

Dawn Carr

Jessica is new to the team. She drives down from Sarasota Military Academy each day to swim with us.

Danielle Tanaka

They are just acquiring knowledge about swimming and getting a feel for the water. Their attitudes are awesome and they are just absorbing everything.

Juan Dominguez

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

Mary Oliver

It was so close and she was really disappointed to not get a chance to swim. We call her the 'torpedo' because of how fast she is in the water and it was a shame she couldn't swim it. I think she would have made the finals. She also swam the 100 butterfly and just missed qualifying for finals. She is just a freshman so we look for good things in the future.

Dana Fossmo

The main thing about Kelly right now is that she's just having a lot of fun. She's swimming well because she has to opportunity to be a leader and be one of the stars on our team. Obviously, you do better when you're just enjoying yourself.

Mark Morehouse

There is a consistency of femininity and glamour which sort of pulls the two together. I think both the '50s and '60s are wonderful because they are very pared-down. It's minimal and very chiseled. All the little details play an important role, like scalloped edges, belts, the little hip-hugger pants and the little sweater, combined together with swim wear.

Adrienne Vittadini

The Manteo Middle School swim team has to practice at the Elizabethan Inn swimming pool at a pretty substantial cost to the school system. Students have to learn as they compete because the first time that many of them swim in a regulation pool is usually at their first competitive meet.

Debbie Gibbs

My time wasn't too bad. I want to swim quicker (today). The bar will really rise.

Michael Klim

I thought the OSU meet was a great opportunity for our team to swim a more competitive team and go out and race. We were challenged, and it was a help to get us ready for racing at the conference championships. Buffalo was more of a cap-off to the season where we were able to swim some different events and enjoy ourselves a bit.

Dan Wohl

We've all been on a team since we were eight years old or so. We've always looked forward to the high school swimming scene, because it's way more competitive than USA swimming. We were ready for it when we were in middle school.

Arrika Bales

I was thinking it could've been my mom or my wife in there. Knowing how to swim and being able to hold my breath, I was just hoping and praying I could save her.

Ricky Mathews

Tim has swam fast all season, and he has the potential to swim even faster at state.

Becky Tighe

I think swimming goes in cycles. It's just very important to keep the new blood coming through and we're beginning to do that.

Adam Pine

Swimming is a life-long activity and it's one of the best all-around conditioning sports. I strongly encourage all of the athletes to continue swimming competitively after high school because ultimately I want them to be healthy.

Brian Ingram