Swim Quotes - Page 10

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

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.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

The water doesn't know how old you are.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path.