Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

Katherine Mansfield

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Kirsty Coventry

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Michael Phelps

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

Michael Phelps

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

Michael Phelps

I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.

Michael Phelps

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

Michael Phelps

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

Michael Phelps

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

Michael Phelps

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

Michael Phelps

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

Michael Phelps

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Scott Speedman

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

Seth Godin

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Ravi Zacharias

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Tom Cruise

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Nicholson Baker

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Nastassja Kinski

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Michael Caine

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

Melody Beattie

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

Michio Kaku

I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

Michael Jordan

I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

Mark Ruffalo

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Melissa Etheridge

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

Nate Parker

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

John Shelby Spong

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

John Oates

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

James Joyce

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

Henry A. Kissinger

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

Henry George

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.

Jon Foreman

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.