Swimmer Quotes

Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. (George Bernard Shaw)
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? View quote
Steven Wright
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. View quote
Trevor Dunn
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit. View quote
Esther Williams
I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer. View quote
Amanda Beard
Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break. View quote
Brooke Burns
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today. View quote
Dawn Fraser
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time. View quote
Joan Sutherland
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. View quote
Teddy Sears
I should give all the works of Baudelaire for a female Olympic swimmer. (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner. View quote
Suzanne Collins
And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
[I]f neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land. View quote
Michael Chabon
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. View quote
John Waters
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world. View quote
Henry Lawson
A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair. View quote
Walt Whitman
Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. View quote
George Meredith
Any performance is discussible either from the standpoint of what it attains or what it misses. Comprehensiveness can be discussed as superficiality, intensiveness as stricture, tolerance as uncertainty-and the poor pedestrian abilities of a fish are clearly explainable in terms of his excellence as a swimmer. A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing-a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B. View quote
Kenneth Burke
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is. (Maggie Q)
I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school. View quote
Katharine McPhee
People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. View quote
Amanda Beard
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. View quote
Apolo Ohno
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day. View quote
Burton Cummings