Quotes About Swimming

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

Running is bad for your knees, and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

I surf, swim, play water polo, and I paddle an outrigger canoe with my team. I'm also a klutz on land, so water is my thing.

I don't swim! That's like athletic.

I'm not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.

After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

I swim a lot. I swim most days.

I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I can swim I'm not bad, but not great.

I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

I can't swim, and I actually hate sand.

I swim three times a week.

There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.

I write and walk and swim and drink.

I swim every other day. That's my exercise.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.