Swim Quotes - Page 8

If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

Focusing is about saying No.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

'm starting to get a swimming physique, which I'm very pleased about, because for me that's the most appealing male physique. It's not show-y off-y Mr Muscle, "Look how much I can bench." It's just a real lean, athletic figure and it doesn't look like you try too hard. When you see people who have huge biceps, it looks like they're in the gym all day. But I think there's a difference between looking muscly and being fit.

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.