Weissmuller Quotes

#1. I need freedom to be happy.

Johnny Weissmuller

#2. All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

Johnny Weissmuller

#3. I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

Geri Halliwell

#4. Love must be invisible. No one ever sees it coming. It sneaks up behind you, bashes you over the head and leaves you in a state of stunned confusion for the rest of your life.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#5. I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Johnny Weissmuller

#6. Don't let go of the vine.

Johnny Weissmuller

#7. I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

Ronaldo

#8. What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Marcel Proust

#9. The main thing is not to let go of the vine.

Johnny Weissmuller

#10. Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

Joel Fuhrman

#11. Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

Johnny Weissmuller

#12. Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?

Johnny Weissmuller

#13. I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.

Jane Goodall

#14. You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them.

Robin Farina

#15. I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Johnny Weissmuller

#16. Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

Johnny Weissmuller

#17. No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Johnny Weissmuller

#18. How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

Johnny Weissmuller

#19. The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

Johnny Weissmuller

#20. We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

Johnny Weissmuller

#21. With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Johnny Weissmuller

#22. Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.

Johnny Weissmuller

#23. Name a mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!" "Oh, sure," Leo said. "Like ... um, the Little Mermaid?" Aphros frowned. "Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!

Rick Riordan

#24. The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

Johnny Weissmuller

#25. When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

Johnny Weissmuller

#26. I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

Johnny Weissmuller

#27. Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

Brandi L. Bates

#28. The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

William Blake

#29. I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Carolina Herrera

#30. I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

Johnny Weissmuller