Swimming Quotes - Page 14

• I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Sports, Littles, Active

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Talks Wii Fit" by Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. May 19, 2008.

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• I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Country, War, Flower

  Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Running, Boxing

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• The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

  Hugh Prather

  Past, Offering, Judging

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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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• When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.

  Charlie Bewley

  Dad, One Day, Said

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• If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

  Neil Young

  Want, Lost, Rhythm

  Song: Like An Inca, Album: Trans

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• You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

  Kinky Friedman

  Hell, Mainstream, Accomplish

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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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• I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

  Theophilus London

  Snowboarding, Skiing

  "Theophilus London Doesn’t Have a Driver’s License, But He Drives Around Anyway". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

  Jillian Lauren

  Over You, Arms, Faces

  Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.68, Penguin

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• I do weights a few times a week. Not a lot of heavy weights. I do it just to keep my muscle toned. With the martial arts, I am doing pretty basic stuff. I do some sparring. If I get a chance, I will go swimming or running in-between. I keep in pretty good shape between films.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Running, Weight, Shapes

  "EXCLUSIVE: Dolph Lundgren Is Universal Soldier: Regeneration!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

  Julia Mancuso

  Free Diving, Surfing, Paddling

  "Olympic Skier Julia Mancuso Trains in Sand, Not Snow". Interview with Cristina Goyanes, www.shape.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

  Diana Nyad

  Thinking, Florida, Cuba

  "Diana Nyad's impossible dream should be saluted, not scorned" by Jill Homer, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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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, Winning

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• I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

  Rose Macaulay

  Actors, Elements, Strange

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Stars, Night, Light

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.

  Tim Finn

  Ocean, Healing, Passion

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• A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Cereal, London Olympics

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• Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Strong, Heaven, Flying

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.41, Macmillan

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• I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

  Ray Lewis

  Sports, Yoga, Wrestling

  Twinlab Interview, www.facebook.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

  Anika

  Beautiful, Beach, Surfing

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• I always love using the girls behind the blocks to create even more energy. It's so much fun and so much energy to be with these girls, I love training with them and it's just so much fun to race next to them. I try to use that as much as I can.

  Alyson Ackman

  Girl, Fun, Block

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• Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

  Gene Tunney

  Basketball, Sports, Running

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• We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

  Alan Thicke

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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