Quotes About Achievement

It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.

Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.

My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.

I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don't want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.

I had a lot of ear infections when I was younger, so I didn't learn to swim until I was about 14.

I love seeing other people swim quickly, it gives you a bit more motivation to keep pushing and get the best out of yourself.

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

In one session, I saw a lady and a man learn to swim for the first time. Within an hour, the man swam front crawl for half a length, and the lady finished a full length with her head under water.

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.

I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

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

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

My mom was a swimmer growing up. She was World Class.

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

I can sit back in 10, 15, 20 years, when I'm sitting with my kids, I'll be able to say that I'm sitting in Ravens Stadium during a game, and I'm watching one of the best swimmers ever win a Gold for the U.S. You know, as you get older, you cherish those kinds of moments.

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.

My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.

Katie Ledecky is the best swimmer in the world. You could say she's impressive with what she can do in a pool.