Swimmer Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Mean, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics

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• My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

  Katie Hoff

  My Boyfriend

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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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• Days, when the ball of our vision
  Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;
  When the graps on the bow was decision,
  And arrow and hand and eye were one;
  When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,
  Came heaving for rapture ahead! -
  Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer
  As lights over mounds of the dead.

  George Meredith

  Eye, Light, Eagles

  George Meredith (1910). “The Works of George Meredith”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

  Amanda Beard

  People, Focus, Firsts

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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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• (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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• 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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• 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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• An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Loss, Swimming

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 a.m. You get used to it. You get up at 4:15 a.m.; my parents, who were amazing, they were up at 4:15 a.m. or earlier to drop me off at the pool and then go to work. I eventually stopped doing that, but the pattern remained. I like getting up really early. It feels like my time of day.

  Teddy Sears

  Growing Up, Parent, Pool

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

  Ryan Lochte

  Athlete, Winning, Loses

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• Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

  Lewis Gordon

  Water, Pioneers, Would Be

  "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

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• I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

  John Waters

  Powerful, Hate, Ocean

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.34, Macmillan

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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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• The water doesn't know how old you are.

  Dara Torres

  Swimming, Water, Old You

  "Dara Torres on Goal-Setting at Any Age". Interview with Linda Childers, spryliving.com. June 1, 2012.

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