Quotes About Resilience

It's sink or swim for me in 2020.

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got a lot.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

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

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

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.

I want to continue the sport of swimming. I'm not going to give up until I think it's reached where I want it to go.

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

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.

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

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.

I'm still swimming.

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

In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.

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

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

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.

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.

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

What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

Swimming is still very much a part of me.

Swimming was truly a way that I just felt that freedom from all of those surgeries and the pain.

Maybe it's part of being an athlete, but I feel like we're really good, especially in swimming, about just pushing things down and pushing ahead.