"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 have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming"

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"

"Swimming isn't everything, winning is"

"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball"

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl"

"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now"

"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him"

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked"

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath"

"I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive"