Summer Swimming Sayings

#1. Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

Summer Sanders

#2. As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

Darell Hammond

#3. If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama can end the self-memorialization obsession that is presidential libraries - by not building such a shrine.

Anthony Clark

#4. I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

Summer Sanders

#5. I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

Sania Mirza

#6. We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

Gail Devers

#7. Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

Summer Sanders

#9. When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

Patti Davis

#10. I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes ... not renovating ... decorating homes.

Andrea Gabriel

#11. That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.

Tye Sheridan

#13. Getting dressed starts with shoes. Getting undressed ends with shoes.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

Jackie Evancho

#15. It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

Summer Sanders

#16. Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment.

Summer Sanders

#17. ...deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her.

Allison Brennan

#18. The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

Joe Hill

#19. Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Jerry Saltz

#20. Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

Darell Hammond

#21. 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

#22. Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

Darell Hammond

#23. In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.

Sakyong Mipham

#24. I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

Summer Sanders

#25. The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

Leonard Cohen

#26. As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#27. I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.

Brenda Brathwaite

#28. When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.

Summer Sanders

#29. Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.

Che Guevara