Swimmer Quotes - Page 2

• The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.

  Summer Sanders

  Sports, Team, Practice

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Courage, Determination, Swimming

  Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  W. C. Fields

  Life, Swimming, Innovation

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

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

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• Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

  Ryan Lochte

  Motivational, Fun, Athlete

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• Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Knowing, Water, Depth

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• We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Rivers, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

  Nelson Mandela

  Guarantees That, Fighter, Danger

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

  Katie Ledecky

  Focus, Swim, Racing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

  Estella Warren

  Childhood, Body, Comfortable

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

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Dumb Questions

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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, Swim, Lap

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

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• He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Swim, Might

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• Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. Anyway, being a fish, you knew how to swim. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Mean

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• He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Stress, Struggle

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

  Cat Deeley

  Feet, Size, Dues

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• It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

  Ryan Lochte

  Black, Attention, Lines

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• People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Adventure, Skills, Rivers

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.135, Image

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• Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Trying, Depth, Kicking

  Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

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• He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean, Fall, Eye

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House

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• I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

  Dawn Fraser

  Swim, Mind, Stronger

  "The one that came the longest way!". "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

  Gene Hill

  Fall, Divorce, Rivers

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• I'm a really good swimmer.

  Will Ferrell

  "Megamind - Will Ferrell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

  Suzanne Collins

  Learners

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.270, Scholastic Inc.

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