Quotes About Determination

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.

I tell people that the best thing that can ever happen to you is getting fired, and you can either sink or swim, and I swam like hell. The reason why I swam the way I swam was because there was nothing else for me.

I think I learned how to swim before I could walk.

It's sink or swim for me in 2020.

I know I'm enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

It drives me forward knowing people are watching me and I have to swim well.

After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.

It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.

I'm a 100m/200m swimmer so I have the early speed.

I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

I fell in love with this idea of becoming a swimmer. I knew two strokes at the time but I went and I just loved racing these girls with legs.

As long as I'm enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

For people who believe that they can't do it, I hope I'm an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

I love swimming, but swimming can't be my entire identity, my entire world.

Swimming forced me to deal with the things I wanted to escape. It helped me work through a lot of feelings and frustrations, because I had hours under water just to swim laps and think.

I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

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

If I was satisfied I wouldn't keep swimming.

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.