Swim Quotations | Page 5

They held their own. They swam through across the board. They'll be ready to swim in a couple of weeks (at sectionals).

It's relaxing to swim in front of your family and friends. You couldn't ask for a better meet as far as competition goes and the crowd.

A perfect weekend for us is to wake up on Saturday with our bathing suits and a change of clothes, work all day in the garden, then swim and clean up, cook dinner in the barn, and not go back into the house until 10.

She'll probably have to swim about a 1:12. Her best last year was 1:17, but she swam for the Aggie Swim Club this March through July and I think that's going to make a very big difference in what she accomplishes this year. You can already see the difference in her in the water. She's already in pretty good shape and she got some pretty good instruction over the summer.

She'll probably have to swim about a 1:12, ... Her best last year was 1:17, but she swam for the Aggie Swim Club this March through July and I think that's going to make a very big difference in what she accomplishes this year. You can already see the difference in her in the water. She's already in pretty good shape and she got some pretty good instruction over the summer.

That's amazing. This is a huge meet. It's a big meet for Sam and a big accomplishment to swim with the best talent in the state.

The kids swam extremely well. So much of swimming is mental now. If you're not physically ready, you're not going to be there. They had to change their approach and they did. You're swimming against the clock and trying to swim your personal best. That's all you can do.

The kids go to swim classes, we play basketball. Friday is their day to play.

The minister had just returned from a swim and was getting inside his home when he was shot.

I knew this was going to be our final swim, but it didn't hit me until Andrew dove into the water to start the relay. I was like this was going to be my last swim ever. I gave it my all. I think we all did and we tried our best. We didn't win, but winning's not all that matters sometimes.

I like Madison, I really do, ... But it's economically divided. And you shouldn't have to live on the west side - which has a number of privately operated neighborhood pools - to have your kids get swim lessons.

I'm really happy with the progress they have made. I think we are a lot faster team now than we were last year. As a coach, I want them to be able to swim different events. That brings more value to the team and it will help them after high school.

I'm pushing him a lot to swim faster and he keeps pushing me. I'm not more motivated to swim faster because of them. I swim faster for the team.

I'm just not trying to think about it as my last meet as a Virginia swimmer. After it's all over, I'll think of that. All the hard work we've done, I'm just going to go and have fun and swim fast.

I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land.

If you do encounter that, it would be wise probably to swim elsewhere, ... Just be mindful of your and their environment.

If you don't win gold people feel like you haven't achieved anything and we just wanted to prove that we are fighters and that's what the swim team is all about.

I like to swim and ride my bike.

I'll probably go against him 30 times. It all depends on how we decide to block him on each play. I look forward to that challenge. He tries to avoid you and swim on you. I just have to stay focused and patient.

I know it wasn't just us girls. Something was nudging us to swim that day. We believe in our hearts it was God.

I know everyone is pumped up for conference. There is really no pressure to swim our fastest times at conference. We set everything up to swim our fastest times at sectionals.

I know everyone has been training really hard. Since the girls are so young, they do not know what to expect. Some of the younger kids know what to expect and know how to swim and know how fast they have to go.

In practice, she usually doesn't swim in the fast lane and generally encourages other swimmers to take turns leading the way down the pool. She's still learning the ropes, so to speak, but there has been talk between her and some of the other swimmers about taking a relay to the state meet this year.

In my sophomore year at Fresno, they just threw me in, ... I needed that. I think I swim rather than sink. Of course there's going to be some bumps. But it also might go the other way, and there would be more good than everyone thinks there's going to be. But you've got to be out there to learn. To take the live bullets. To take the shots.

In my real life I'm more of a walking Woody Allen movie. I'm afraid to drive and I can't swim and all that stuff so it is incredibly thrilling and fun to listen to my voice do things that, when it's in my regular body, it would never get to do.

I plan to swim at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. After all, I'm still improving.

Calderon largely is going to sink or swim on Fox's record. The more (President) Bush makes Fox look like he got nothing from this stronger relationship he wanted with the U.S., the harder it will be for Calderon.

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I didn't know anything about it, ... Now I know I definitely want to swim in college. That's my goal.

Byers had a really fast anchor swim in the 400.

Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches. They don't play in the same parks. They don't swim in the same pools. They don't go to the same movies.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

I figured everybody there was a winner, whether they won a medal or not, ... You take a guy in his eighties who can still swim the length of a pool, and in my mind, he's a winner.

I felt that I had a good, smart race for sectionals. I felt that I didn't over swim it and I felt confident that I could make it (to state) again. Yeah, it feels great going down again.

I definitely want to leave an impression on them. I want people to remember how I swim at this meet.

I describe more as a market pressure than UPS problems. It's kind of tough to swim upstream in this period.

I am a bit disappointed with it, but it served its purpose. There is no reason I felt pretty ordinary and did not swim well today.

He's got a lot more speed in him than that. He's not fully rested and he's not shaved down. I feel he'll swim a lot faster at state.

I closed out my career on a positive note. Not only did I set two records this season, I also won three medals in state, including one in an individual event. I'm excited that I got to swim for such a successful program.

I can't compete in relays with them, (Burnt Hills). But I know Coach (Matt) Turner and I swim with a lot of the guys in Schenectady Swim Club. I qualified for sectionals in the 50-free and the states today. I was close in the 200-IM and the 100-butterfly, but I'm close.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there’s nothing you can do about being born liberal — fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed,

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

I swim three times a week.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)...Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

I don't even know how to swim!

I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

I would love to be able to swim in the ocean in Malibu. But that is asking for a bikini shot. That's inviting something that I don't want to happen. I don't need to be on a 'Who's Skinny, Who's Fat, Who's Looking Healthy, Who's Not Eating?' list.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do,

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

I swim, I do Pilates, I meditate - I think it's about keeping your stress level as low as you can.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunks—so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hips—lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus)

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.