Quotes About Sports

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Because I was a swimmer, I felt like sports did help me to realize that my body was more than what it just looked like... and if didn't eat, then I couldn't swim fast.

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 don't think a swimmer on film works unless you're Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball players; they're huge stars.

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.

I was very into swimming, but I was never into contact sports. I think it was because I knew I wasn't going to get damaged.

I was always a very competitive little kid. I did swimming very competitively, downhill skiing very competitively. Everything was competition.

I don't really have a specific Olympic crush. There were a couple of guys during the Olympics in Sochi that were super fit. And during the summer games, any of the sports where people have their shirts off if they're diving or swimming or whatever, it's like eye candy.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

I tried the swimming team, but nobody came to the matches. But they did show up for the plays.

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.'

I did javelin, swimming, long distance running. But the reason I did these other sports was because of boxing. I didn't want to get sidetracked.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

When it rains, I do a lot of indoor exercises; when its pleasant, I play a lot of tennis and do swimming, and opt for outdoor sports and running.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

It was everyone going up there to swing for the fences, because the home runs were what would get them on 'SportsCenter.' That really changed the mindset of the players.