Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George A. Sheehan

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Joe Biden

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

Mao Zedong

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Lionel Trilling

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Karl Pilkington

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.

Leisel Jones

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

Laure Manaudou

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President Can't Swim.

Ludivine Sagnier

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

Ludivine Sagnier

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for Swimming Pool was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo, and I was having problems coping with that image.

Loretta Lynn

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

Hari Kondabolu

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

Julia Glass

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

Julia Mancuso

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

Lea Michele

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

Lauren Oliver

Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then.

Maria Menounos

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.