Quotes About Meets

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out.

Where the human need for order meets the human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Kristina is a model. It's that old rock star meets model cliche.

All I really want to do is race and get into meets and run.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

I've been at these meets before where the emotions are so up and down.

Autumn, not spring, is swimming's preseason. It is a time to build an aerobic base, develop a routine, and set goals for the year. The few meets held between August and January are dress rehearsals to real racing, which begins in January.