Quotes about swimming by topic: Attitude to swimming, Sports and swimming, Death and swimming, Swimming features, Life and swimming, Swimming learning, People and swimming, Alcohol and swimming, Happiness and swimming, Losing weight and swimming, Success and swimming, Water and swimming, Sea and swimming, Religion and swimming.
Attitude to swimming
Swimming is my passion and something that I love. (Natalie du Toit)
Swimming gives me immense satisfaction. (Lara Dutta)
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)
Swimming can be boring. To me, it’s like going on a treadmill. (Jason Momoa)
Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people – and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams – is something that is really special to me. (Simone Manuel)
Sports and swimming
Swimming is one of the hardest sports. (Stephanie Rice)
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There’s no time to do anything else. (Chad le Clos)
When I swim I feel like no one is able to stop me. (Mark Spitz)
No one ever watched competitive swimming. (Peter O’Toole)
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It’s ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don’t wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours – the loneness of the long distance runner. (Diana Nyad)
Death and swimming
It should not be forgotten that on the day of the flood those who knew how to swim also drowned. Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I’m swimming, sometimes I’m not sure which one it is. (Demetri Martin)
I can swim just enough to hold myself back from saving others. (Jules Renard)
If a contemplative throws himself into the water, he will not try to swim, he will first try to understand the water. And he will drown. (Henri Michaux)
Nature does not punish anyone. Jump into the water without knowing how to swim, whether out of devotion or desperation, you will be drowned. (Jean Marie Guyau)
Swimming features
Only a jump into the river will tell us what swimming is. (Martin Heidegger)
Swimming is just meditation in motion. (Cesar Nikko Caharian)
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)
It is easier to swim in dirty water than in clean water. (Francis Picabia)
The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you’re doing it, there’s nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I’m ploughing up and down the pool. (Sophie Hannah)
Life and swimming
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is. (Dennis Rodman)
What would become of us without us, I thought. Life is a shipwreck and everyone goes swimming as they can. (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)
A philosopher once said to a fish: The meaning of life is to think and to become wise. The fish replied: The meaning of life is to swim and catch mosquitoes. The philosopher murmured: Poor fish! The fish whispered: Poor philosopher! (Max Black)
Swimming learning
When you get in the water, you learn to swim. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you. (Bruce Lee)
People want to learn to swim and at the same time keep one foot on the ground. (Marcel Proust)
We do not teach water or swimming to young caimans. (Ahmadou Kourouma)
When you learn to swim in the small bath, it is very difficult to jump into the big one. (Andre Santini)
People and swimming
You still have to swim yourself. You have to focus on yourself. (Britta Steffen)
I try to separate my personal life from swimming. (Michael Phelps)
Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly. (Ian Thorpe)
I’m really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what’s going on with me outside the pool. (Eric Shanteau)
Alcohol and swimming
Do you drown your sorrows in alcohol? Watch out, they know swim. (Yves Mirande)
I try to drown my sorrows in alcohol but since time…he learned to swim, my sorrows. (Philippe Geluck)
One day, they tell you that having another glass of alcohol would be like going for a swim without knowing how to swim. When you know you’re going to drown, you think. (Jacques Dutronc)
Happiness and swimming
Happiness: feeling of well-being which can lead to imprudence. If you are swimming in happiness, be careful, stay where you are. (Marc Escayrol)
It is not because we shed big tears that we have heart and not because we laugh out loud that we swim in full happiness. (Jean-Francois Deniau)
Losing weight and swimming
I don’t think swimming makes you lose weight because I’ve never seen a slim hippo. (Heinz Schenk)
When people swim or play tennis because they want to lose weight, they often lose the fun and sporting spirit. (Lester Pearson)
Success and swimming
We swim on the wave of success. After us the deluge. (Andre Brie)
Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming. (Travis Kalanick)
Water and swimming
It doesn’t matter how deep the water is if you can swim well . (Pavel Kosorin)
The water is your friend…you don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. (Alexandr Popov)
Sea and swimming
I like to go swimming, and I like salty hair. (Morgan Saylor)
My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool. (Jo Brand)
Beach and swimming
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it’s so relaxing. It’s also a great form of active recovery. It’s perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit. (Eugenie Bouchard)
Religion and swimming
Belief in God is like daring to swim: you have to trust the element and see if it holds up. (Hans Küng)
A creed can be like a life ring that keeps you from drowning—or from swimming. To swim. (Peter Horton)
Others
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. (Melody Carlson)
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. (Woodrow Wilson)
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