Quotes About Challenge

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

In 2000, I got stuck in the sea off Cyprus after I fell off a boat. I was out there for over an hour. I am not a strong swimmer, but adrenaline kicked in, and I swam back.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.

Open-water swimming scares the hell out of me.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.

Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop.

I want to run a marathon in the immediate future. In the future future, I want to do ironmans. I cycle long distances. The only thing I have to work on is the swimming. I'm a good swimmer, but I've never done long distances like that.

Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.