Quotes About Dedication

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

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

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.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

I'm still swimming.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

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

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.

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.

I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.

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.

I work out four hours a day - I do a lot of swimming, dancing, and gymming.

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.

There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session of breaststroke at the pool near where I live in Budapest with my husband, Gusztav, and my two children.

Swimming is still very much a part of me.

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

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.

Swimming, it's the best job.

I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think us athletes can go out there and perform no matter what... This is what we train to do.

I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.