Swimming Quotes - Page 26

• Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

  Marianne Limpert

  Motivational, Athlete, People

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Practice, Piano

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Race

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Disappointment, Two, Life And Death

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• Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Exercise

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• I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Song

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• I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Rap

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
  When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

  M. J. Hyland

  Beach, Memories, Past

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• Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts

  Grand Puba

  Nuts, Daddy, Hip Hop

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• Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

  Ray Lewis

  Loss, Winning, Power

  "Ray Lewis Delivers Pregame Speech To Stanford Basketball Team" by Brian Floyd, www.sbnation.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

  Kieren Perkins

  People, Overcoming, Swimmer

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• After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

  Sam Walton

  Real, Persistence, Secret

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• If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

  Joe Teti

  Guy, Survival, Would Be

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• There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.

  Kabir

  Book, Ivory, Water

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Fall, Expression

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.'

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Couple, Engineering

  "More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations".

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• I love swimming because racing.

  Ryan Lochte

  Racing, I Love Swimming

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• A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

  Missy Franklin

  Fun, Huge, I Love Swimming

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• You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

  Mark Warkentin

  Olympian

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• Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

  Stephanie Rice

  Sports, Hardest

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• I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

  Stephanie Rice

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

  Robert Higgs

  Floating, Paddling, May

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