Swimming Quotes: Dive into Inspiration

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

Pink Floyd, Musician

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

Jimmy Carter, President

"Swimming isn't everything, winning is"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

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

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

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

Merlin Olsen, Athlete

"You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"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"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities"

Albert Shanker, Educator

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"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"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"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"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun"

Bill Walton, Athlete

"Water for me is so essential, like swimming"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home"

Esther Williams, Actress

"When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"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"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky"

Brian May, Musician

"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing"

Ric Keller, Politician

"I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"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"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it"

Woodrow Wilson

"I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"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"

Esther Williams, Actress

"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage"

Esther Williams, Actress

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