Quotes About Swimming Fast

#1. 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.

Laure Manaudou

#2. Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

Charles Clover

#3. I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.

Mike Colter

#4. Life was radical right after I met the monster.
Later, life became harder, complicated.
Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,
Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway,
Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. Their smiles are lies.

Most smiles are.

Kiersten White

#6. I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.

Lauren Oliver

#7. It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

Tera Van Beilen

#8. I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.

Brittany MacLean

#9. It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

Jade Edmistone

#10. I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

Allan Carr

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

Eric Shanteau

#12. I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.

Cliff Lee

#13. There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

Lorenzo Lamas

#14. This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.

Peter Matthiessen

#15. I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

Michael Phelps

#16. He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Caleb Colton

#17. When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

Katie Ledecky

#18. My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It's not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it's really different from the 100 fly.

Katerine Savard

#19. God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.

Christine Caine

#20. You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else.

Ray Bradbury