Eric Shanteau Quotes

#1. Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Horace

#2. At 28, you need recovery time after training.

Eric Shanteau

#3. Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#4. I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

Eric Shanteau

#5. As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.

Benjamin Bratt

#6. I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.

Eric Shanteau

#7. Stormtroopers were literally supposed to be within the same range of height and weight in part because of exactly that - he wasn't joking when he said he was too tall to be a stormtrooper.

Chuck Wendig

#8. When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

Eric Shanteau

#9. Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

Eric Shanteau

#10. Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Eric Shanteau

#11. I should have gone back to my book on Alpha Males and their instincts: how a dominant leader, when it has subjugated its subordinate mate to the point of rebellion, will turn back to the ploys it used for its initial sexual courtship.

Anonymous

#12. I know there's life after the Olympics.

Eric Shanteau

#13. He really was a very bad leader in that respect - and it was why his Arrows gave him their unswerving dedication. All of them rejects from the world, from their families. No one else had ever come for them, ever would. Silence or not, it mattered that Aden would.

Nalini Singh

#14. Upon the shores of death I have been told there is a place between the tides where time and pain do not exist

Frederick Anderson

#15. If I have one message to young swimmers about taking care of their bodies, it's definitely take care of your shoulders.

Eric Shanteau

#16. Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Eric Shanteau

#17. I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

Eric Shanteau

#18. One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

Eric Shanteau

#19. I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

Eric Shanteau

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

Eric Shanteau

#21. There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.

Eric Shanteau

#22. I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

Eric Shanteau

#23. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

M. John Harrison

#24. I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

Eric Shanteau

#25. Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

Eric Shanteau

#26. Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

Eric Shanteau

#27. After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

Eric Shanteau

#28. I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Eric Shanteau