Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Waitley

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

Denis Leary

Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Deb Caletti

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

Dick Cavett

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Diana Nyad

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida,

Barbara Sher

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Cameron Crowe

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Ann Brashares

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

Amanda Beard

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

Amanda Beard

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Amanda Beard

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Amanda Beard

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Adam Gopnik

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Alexander Dale Oen

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

Don Johnson

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Duke Kahanamoku

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

Dale Carnegie

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.

That was an outstanding swim for Nicholas, especially under those conditions.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Boris Johnson

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

Bill Cosby

A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

It's just tough. You're better off swimming right now, than trying to play football.

Aaron Peirsol

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

Cyril Connolly

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Dawn Fraser

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

David Levithan

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

Mindy Kaling

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

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.

Maria Menounos

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