Quotes About Inspiration

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.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

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.

Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people - and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams - is something that is really special to me.

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

I love swimming, but I love knowing that kids see me as an inspiration.

I wanted swimming to be something that I loved, something that I was motivated to do for myself.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.

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

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

There are a lot of young swimming fans that are on Instagram, so I try to respond or post things that they like.

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.

Grandaddy always had Hank playing out in the garage. I heard it so much I just started singing. It was like jumping in a pool. You just start swimming.

Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.

I grew up watching swimming and amazing athletes in Australia and grew up wanting to do the same.

I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me of summers at the beach.

Women, I love. It's amazing to me, because I am a swimsuit model; I'm half-naked. I just love the fact that women love me, and it makes me love them so much back.

When I finally discovered the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, I browsed through archives and saw a picture of an incredibly stunning model, Damaris Lewis. Her images inspired me, and I imagined being in the magazine myself. Never in a million years did I dream it would actually happen.