Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

Ian Thorpe

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

Ian Thorpe

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

Ian Thorpe

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

Ian Thorpe

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

Ian Thorpe

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Ian Thorpe

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

James Garner

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

Ingrid Bergman

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Nate Parker

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

James Patterson

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

Heather O'Rourke

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

Henry James

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

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.

Joan Didion

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Eric Shanteau

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Heidi Klum

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

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.