Quotes About Commitment

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

I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was 8 when I started swimming training, but it wasn't until I was 10 when it became more serious so over the next few years I slowly developed a better understanding of my diet.