Quotes About Swimmers

#1. Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.

Greg Iles

#2. There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

Natalie Coughlin

#3. Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

Margaret Sanger

#4. I'm coming inside you in three seconds. Pull off if you don't want a bunch of my swimmers attacking your eggs.

Jessica Clare

#5. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Child, you've been trying to drown your sorrows for some time now. And the problem with that plan is, you can't drown sorrows. They're good swimmers. They're gonna float back up to the top and be bobbing right where you left them last night.

Terri Lee

#7. We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.

Henry Van Dyke

#8. Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch
Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch
Fishes pray for them to fly far away
Inland lakes toast to the Pelican's day

Munia Khan

#9. People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

David Steindl-Rast

#10. I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

Cameron Van Der Burgh

#11. She sees tall, sensible Eleanor sitting out on a terrace at twilight, with bats circling above her head. She sees the Pargiter family rising and falling through the decades like swimmers battling the waves.'
Summer Lies Bleeding

Nuala Casey

#12. Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war ... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

Thomas Huxley

#13. The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Esther Williams

#14. We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#15. The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

Jesse Lee Kercheval

#16. That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Yann Martel

#17. I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

Michael Phelps

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

Amanda Beard

#19. I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

Glenn Close

#20. I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

Shane Gould

#21. My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Sophie Hannah

#22. Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

Christine Swanson

#23. It was the sort of smile that lies on sandbanks waiting for incautious swimmers.

Terry Pratchett

#24. There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Kirsty Coventry

#25. It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

Ryan Lochte

#26. IN THE LOBBY of her building, people fresh out of the wind were huffing and puffing like swimmers just crawled up on shore. She

Alice McDermott

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

Eric Shanteau

#28. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic

Gavin De Becker

#29. Is the human creature as perfect in function as it might be?' 'Meaningless,' replied Cabal, 'with no definition as to what that function might conceivably be. We are good communicators, passable runners, middling swimmers, and poor at flying.

Jonathan L. Howard

#30. Good swimmers at length are drowned.

George Herbert

#31. So it was that for two minutes we sang with all our hearts, feeling only for the past and turning our gaze from the future, swimmers doing the backstroke toward a waterfall.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#32. Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art.

William Shakespeare

#33. But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks."
"Excuse me?"
"You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be all technical about it. He still had living sperm in his juice."
Cat and Bones

Jeaniene Frost

#34. I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

James Magnussen

#35. We're all swimmers in the river of time ... Just you wait, sister. Spending your days anticipating when you'll see your lover, anticipating your next paycheck, next party, next episode of blah blah blah - and poof! You're thirty-nine and wondering where the hell the time went.

Lily Gardner

#36. They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

Mark Helprin

#37. I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

Peter Thiel

#38. Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

Clare Balding

#39. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

Charlie Munger

#40. I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

William H. McRaven

#41. He became a solitary, belonging to that tragic class of active men prematurely deprived of activity; swimmers barred from the water or actors banished from the stage.

John Le Carre

#42. Even the suggestion of swimming be stirring. Watch a swimmer pass a building with a pool: the whiff of chlorine produces a wistful smile. Sit with swimmers when a TV commercial shows someone in the water: they actually stop and watch.

Lynn Sherr

#43. Bone formation is stimulated by skeletal loading, and calcium supplementation could be more important for swimmers than for other athletes due to the low-impact nature of the sport. Calcium

Dave Salo

#44. Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

Stephen B. Pearl

#45. The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

Denise Levertov

#46. A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

Lois Greiman

#47. Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#48. Swimmers know full well that every second has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Dara Torres

#49. With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

Ray Bradbury

#50. We Pisceans know how to swim without water

Munia Khan