Swim Quotes - Page 17

• I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

  Mark Warkentin

  Couple, Race, Years

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• I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

  Eric Shanteau

  Thinking

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• Fathers and sons are natural enemies. Look at any species. Shark, sees his father in the water, he's not thinking, Hey dad, wassup ? He's thinking, Back off, old man, this surfer carcass is mine. Of course, when his girlfriend swims up and she's like, Way, you know, there's enough surfer for everybody. You and your dad need to frenzy together more. Leave you father a thigh.

  Christopher Titus

  Girlfriend, Dad, Father

  "Titus / NASCAR". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

  Menno Simons

  Water, Grace, Depth

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• In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.

  Amy Richards

  College, Guy, Groups

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• And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

  Bennett Madison

  Ocean

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• Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.

  Robert Noyce

  Ocean, Rivers, Leader

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• There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

  Peter Arnett

  Islands, Trying, South

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• I mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Problem, Hard

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• Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

  Zach Braff

  Cities, Safety, Terrible

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• It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.

  Zach Braff

  People, Black, Care

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• Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Grateful, Funny Graduation, Yards

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• I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

  Gretchen Wyler

  Running, Animal, Wings

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• Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump into one another? That's because they have a highly developed sense of feeling in their bodies, which enables them to feel not only the movement of the water against their skin but the presence of other beings who are close. They certainly are not cold-blooded in the sense that they are dull, insensitive, and have no feelings.

  Sharon Gannon

  School, Water, Feelings

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."

  Mao Zedong

  Past, Wind, Sky

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• I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

  Tracy Caulkins

  Thinking, People, Black

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• The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

  John Ashbery

  Life, Eye, Soul

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Streams, Fishes

  Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult

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• And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

  Stephanie Rice

  Racing, Able, Pressure

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the Earth has a soul, it swims in you.

  Kolbein Falkeid

  Soul, Earth, Ifs

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• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

  Dan Jenkins

  Mother, Children, Hair

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

  Eric Butterworth

  Opportunity, Doors, Grows

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Men, Differences

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• But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

  Bruce Nauman

  Running, Lap, Used

  "“Setting a Good Corner”". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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