Swimmer Quotes - Page 3

• A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

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• From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

  Diana Nyad

  Age, Usual, World

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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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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• (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
  I swam my brains out.

  Mark Spitz

  Summer, Winning, Brain

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• My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

  Katie Hoff

  My Boyfriend

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• I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

  Sharni Vinson

  Horse, Athlete, Names

  "Sharni Vinson Talks You’re Next, Playing the Survivalist Girl, Embracing the Film’s Stunts, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 21, 2013.

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• She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

  Margaret Craven

  Past, Rivers, Adventurous Life

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  Teddy Sears

  Sports, Fun, Ambition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.

  Kieran Bew

  Basketball, Stars, War

  Source: collider.com

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• You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Swimming, Next Day, Sick

  Source: collider.com

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• All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Men, Ifs

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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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• It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)

  Marisha Pessl

  Sea, People, Made

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.192, Penguin

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• We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records . . . as the swimmer or the jumper or the runner does . . . Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured. . . .Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Believe, School, Keys

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
  And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
  With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
  To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.

  Rupert Brooke

  War, Sleep, Eye

  'Peace' (1914)

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Winter

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• A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

  Lois Greiman

  Father, Guy, License

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• As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Grief, Dark

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

  Homer

  Beach, Husband, Eye

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Educational, Heart, Men

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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