Quotes and Sayings About Swimming
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
-- Aaron Taylor-JohnsonSource : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2010.
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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 -
The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.
-- Adrian BejanSource : "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.
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What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.
-- Akon -
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
-- Al Pacino -
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
-- Alan Thicke -
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 -
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.
-- Alexander Dale OenSource : "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.
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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 -
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
-- Amanda Beard -
The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
-- Amanda Beard -
In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.
-- Amanda Beard -
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Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.
-- Amanda Beard -
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same 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. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.
-- Amy Tan -
If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
-- Andrzej Kolikowski -
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
-- Andy Serkis -
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I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!
-- Anika -
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 -
I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.
-- Arjun Rampal -
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
-- Arnold SchoenbergSource : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press
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I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.
-- Ashley GreeneSource : Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.
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Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets
-- Audrey Hepburn -
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
-- Barbara Sher -
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Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
-- Barbara Sher -
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
-- Bear Grylls -
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections. Up and down are movable points on horizons that do not exist; focus is an eye-trick, and motion is cell-palpitation. All things radiate from a common point, and differences are the same looked at from various angles.
-- Benjamin De Casseres -
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Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
-- Benjamin E. Mays -
I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
-- Betty Ford