Best Swimmer Quotes

#1. From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

Diana Nyad

#2. 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.

Dawn Fraser

#3. To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

Nelson Mandela

#4. if one desires to have the body type of, say, a champion swimmer, the best course is to start by having the same parents as that champion swimmer - rather than his or her training methods.

Doug McGuff

#5. About as much business as a cat owner has selling dog food. Or an Olympic swimmer has advertising for downhill ski equipment. Or a nun writing hard core erotica.
Abso-fucking-none.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#6. (American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational)
I swam my brains out.

Mark Spitz

#7. You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#8. She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Jean Rhys

#9. She loves swimming," said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college.
Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.
"Don't you Kara?" asked Ellen.
There was no response.
"I didn't start until I was three," said Ellen. "She's got a two year start on me.

Daniel Amory

#10. Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Amanda Beard

#11. Sometimes you could see disaster coming, like an erratic wave that kept drawing, drawing, drawing attention to the beach until whoosh a swimmer becomes victim to its grasp.

Alessandra Torre

#12. Like a swimmer who throws himself into the water in order to learn, but chooses a moment when there are not too many people to see him.

Marcel Proust

#13. In the dark water he was only Gansey, now. He'd never died, he wasn't going to die again. He was only Gansey, now, now, only now.
He could not see him, but Noah stood on the edge of the pool and watched. He had been a swimmer himself, once.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

Burton Cummings

#15. Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

Estella Warren

#16. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Grace Gummer

#18. I've defined myself, privately and publicly, by my brief, intense years as an athlete, a swimmer. I practices five or six hours a day, six days a week, eating and sleeping as much as possible. Weekends were either spent training or competing. I wasn't the best; I was relatively fast...

Leanne Shapton

#19. Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.

Walt Whitman

#20. Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

Shannon Celebi

#21. I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Rolf Harris

#22. Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life.

Katrina Radke

#23. I like Aveda shampoo. I've used it since I was a swimmer.

Ella Eyre

#24. You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Ryan Lochte

#25. Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.

Oswald Chambers

#26. Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.

Allen Tate

#27. You the swimmer, after all. And then you see the waves without pattern, scooping up everyone, throwing them around like so many floating heads, and you can only laugh in your sobbing at all the silly head bobbers. Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#28. Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#29. We just need to figure out how to navigate the rest of the world, and we'll either sink or swim. I'm a really good swimmer. The question is, how long can you hold your breath?

Melissa Foster

#30. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

Peter Boettke

#31. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Steven Wright

#32. Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

Donald Sinden

#33. It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to delete whatever might be construed as ambiguity, desperation, or references to a history that he no longer had access to. Finally, he took a deep breath and hit 'send'.

Joakim Zander

#34. Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery"
~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)

Jim Harrison

#35. Good swimmers at length are drowned.

George Herbert

#36. There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

William S. Burroughs

#37. I could feel the tug of morbid curiosity, like an outgoing tide pulling on a swimmer, urging me to look again. I

Rick Yancey

#38. I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Ryan Lochte

#39. We Pisceans know how to swim without water

Munia Khan

#40. #anks for the swim. You are a majestic swimmer," Simon said
as we neared the walkway to Wind Song.
"You talk a lot of crap, you know that?"
"I thank you for appreciating my verbal stylings," Simon replied,
with a formal bow.

Amanda Howells

#41. He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

Ovid

#42. Swimming against strong currents is how you prove you are a great swimmer.

Matshona Dhliwayo