Swimming Quotes - Page 12

• I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

  Ryan Lochte

  Needs, Looks, Beats

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• Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Goal, Reaching, Reaching Your Goals

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• People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

  Michael Caine

  Order, People, Kidneys

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  Brock Yates

  Night, California, Denver

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• I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

  Mila Kunis

  Golf, Practice, Tennis

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• England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Food, Islands, Cooking

  Katherine Mansfield (2009). “Stories”, p.33, Vintage

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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• Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Eye, Rivers, Lakes

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• Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

  Tom Rachman

  Fighting, Pages, Journalism

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• Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Self, Reincarnation

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• I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

  Lea Michele

  Hiking, Biking

  "Exclusive: Lea Michele On Helping Others, Rachel's Future, and Her Own Style". Interview With Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Heart, People

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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, People, Mind

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• We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself. We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy. The land holds stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Humility, Reflection

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.136, UNM Press

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• To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

  Brian Tracy

  Overcoming, Impossible, Failing

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.31, Jaico Publishing House

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• Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Cinema, Love Poetry

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Hands

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities

  Grant Hackett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

  Pieter van den Hoogenband

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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