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Quotes About Training

I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.
~ Ellie Simmonds
Everything I do in the gym translates to being a better swimmer.
~ Caeleb Dressel
I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.
~ Katharine McPhee
I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
~ Michael Phelps
My mom was a swimmer growing up. She was World Class.
~ Brook Lopez
I'm a 100m/200m swimmer so I have the early speed.
~ Emma McKeon
For swimming, we don't really have an offseason.
~ Jessica Long
With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.
~ Ryan Lochte
I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.
~ Jennette McCurdy
For me, it's about swimming faster. Anything that's not pertaining to swimming faster is irrelevant to me.
~ Caeleb Dressel
Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.
~ Elodie Clouvel
You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.
~ Mark Warkentin
When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.
~ Summer Sanders
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.
~ Ray Allen
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.
~ Judit Polgar
No event in strongman competitions lasts longer than 40 seconds, so by swimming in fast bursts, my body is conditioned for the level of speed and power it needs.
~ Eddie Hall
I do a healthy blend of mixed martial arts, dancing, functional training, and swimming. These exercises give me ample strength, endurance, flexibility, and stamina.
~ Urvashi Rautela
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.
~ Daniel Dubois
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.
~ Ellie Simmonds
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.
~ Ellie Simmonds
Swing at strikes. You've got to swing at strikes.
~ Miguel Cabrera
I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
~ Nastia Liukin
People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.
~ Georges St-Pierre
I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.
~ Anthony Rendon