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Quotes About Swimming

I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle.
~ Maxine Peake
I cut my hand swimming in the Caribbean, it gets infected, and Channel 9 is calling me saying they heard rumors I cut my fingers off.
~ Tommy Morrison
I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.
~ Beth Hart
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
I don't really have a specific Olympic crush. There were a couple of guys during the Olympics in Sochi that were super fit. And during the summer games, any of the sports where people have their shirts off if they're diving or swimming or whatever, it's like eye candy.
~ Gus Kenworthy
In the summer of 1982, like most summers, I spent most every day at the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland, swimming and practicing diving.
~ Christine Blasey Ford
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 grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it's just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.
~ Cody Simpson
I tried the swimming team, but nobody came to the matches. But they did show up for the plays.
~ Tony Todd
I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own aquatic adventures, 'Waterlog'.
~ Alice Roberts
I have issues about swimming in the Med unless I've got a mask on.
~ Davina McCall
Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.
~ Jackie Coogan
I really live for the racing, the moments in those races where everything slows down even though you're swimming as fast as possible.
~ Jessica Long
I always loved pretending I was a fish or a mermaid while swimming in my grandparents' pool.
~ Jessica Long
I grew up watching swimming and amazing athletes in Australia and grew up wanting to do the same.
~ Emma McKeon
My brother and I like to swim. We've been doing that our whole lives. Swimming and jump rope are two of the main things we do.
~ Jermall Charlo
The biggest misconception is that swimming is something you do on holiday, in the pool or in the ocean.
~ Gethin Jones
I started swimming. I frolic like Free Willy.
~ John Pinette
When it rains, I do a lot of indoor exercises; when its pleasant, I play a lot of tennis and do swimming, and opt for outdoor sports and running.
~ Mohit Raina
Swimming was truly a way that I just felt that freedom from all of those surgeries and the pain.
~ Jessica Long
There's something about it to me, the feeling of the water, and feeling, I don't know, equal, and like everyone else. Which is kind of funny because I didn't actually start swimming right away as a sport.
~ Jessica Long
I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.
~ Ellie Simmonds
My mum took me to swimming lessons when I was very young, four years old.
~ 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