Quotes About Swimming

I did not have chance to buy swim suits because I did not go swimming at all. If I ever get a chance to buy one, I want to try one in white or with ribbons.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!')

Desearía no haber llorado tanto! —dijo Alicia, mientras nadaba, tratando de encontrar la salida—. ¡Mi castigo será ahogarme en mis propias lágrimas! ¡Una cosa muy extraña, por cierto! Pero todo ha sido muy extraño hoy.

can't do this. I suck at this. Which is why they're making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don't want to socialize with other kids. I don't trust 'em, I don't like 'em, and best I can tell, the feeling's mutual.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through the almost solid ground. She had said, What is that awful stench? Shame and secrecy, Bird-one, shame and secrecy , he had answered.

Moonlight beams through his eyelids and he can see, as if it's the lake in front of him, the pain and loss he's been swimming in for years. In the moonlight, though, the pain is revealed to be love. The emotions are entwined; they are the two sides of the same gleaming coin.

At night I dream of swimming, my arms move smoothly through the water it is so easy, so calm.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming.

Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on different days.

I was a lifeguard for three years, when I was around 16-years-old. So for my first job, that was awesome, working on the beach.