Quotes About Balance

We have this one body we've been given, so whether you run, kayak, swim, bike, on some basic level, we need to take care of our bodies.

I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

Swimming gives me immense satisfaction.

I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.

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

We play a lot of Nintendo games, a lot of Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, a few different card games, really just stuff so we can stay loose and get your mind off of swimming before going into the meet with full focus.

Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session of breaststroke at the pool near where I live in Budapest with my husband, Gusztav, and my two children.

The kind of encouragement I had as a child to continue sports was brilliant. Like any other family, my people asked me to stress more on studies rather than swimming. But, my mother said 'He enjoys it and should balance both studies and sports.'

But now that I'm approaching my mid-forties and have a child, I realise more than ever that I need to look after myself. I like to keep fit and enjoy swimming and cycling.

Even something light, such as walking, jogging, cycling or swimming, and staying away from junk food is good enough to keep you healthy.

I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.

I would always rather do something in moderation than simply swing from one extreme to another.

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

No matter what the relationship is, if it's a healthy relationship, there is a swing back and forth to anchoring each other, grounding each other and to helping each other process the difficult times.

You don't swing where you sleep.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.