Quotes About Perception

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

A lot of people think it's insane to swim out in blue water with a great white shark, but my experience tells me I can do it safely. Other people might consider it mad, granted, but then I might think what they do is mad.

All my black friends can't swim. Is that bad?

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

People come up to me and say, 'You're that swimmer.'

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Is it my fault that there is a stereotype that black people are not good swimmers? I know that's a joke, but somebody will say, 'I can't believe you would say that.' Well, first of all it's just a joke, and second of all if you watch the Olympics, black people win medals in jumping, running. They don't win any in swimming.

My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

I don't think I'm 'the guy' in the sport of swimming, but people want to label me as 'the guy.'

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.

The biggest misconception is that swimming is something you do on holiday, in the pool or in the ocean.

I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.

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.

I had a baseball swing my whole life. When I was growing up, everyone had a different, very specific softball swing that was very short. And I had a big stride and I had, you know, a baseball swing, and people did not like it.

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.