Swimming Quotes - Page 15

• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Jobs, Exercise

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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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• I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

  Colbie Caillat

  Exercise, Air, Hiking

  "Up Close with Colbie Caillat". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com.

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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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• It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Sweet, Dog, New York

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

  Melody Beattie

  Difficult, Floats

  Melody Beattie (2009). “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”, p.199, Hazelden Publishing

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• In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Color, Cold, Pool

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

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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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• I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

  Summer Sanders

  Brother, Team, Lap

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• Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Goal, Overcoming

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