Quotes About Perseverance

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.

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.

As long as I'm enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

For swimming, we don't really have an offseason.

For people who believe that they can't do it, I hope I'm an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

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.

I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

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.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

If I was satisfied I wouldn't keep swimming.

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

When I decided to keep swimming I made the decision to just do it based off enjoying it and making lots of friends out of it.

Swimming's been a part of my life very much so since around age 4, and I never really dropped it.

I'm still swimming.

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

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

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.