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The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief. — Zig Ziglar

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever. — Amanda Beard

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it. — Michael Phelps

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. — Barbara Sher

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle." — Frank Carson

I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets. — Woody Harrelson

As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change. — Charlotte Campbell

You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race. — Alyson Ackman

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. — Stephanie Rice

Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass. — Brian Clevinger

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home. — Esther Williams

You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life. — Jazmin Carlin

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here. — George A. Sheehan

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion. — Ravi Zacharias

The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet? — Steven Wright

Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. - Ellen DeGeneres — Colleen Hoover

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities. — Albert Shanker

I had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry — Megan Boyle

Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance. — Gary Corby

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool. — Jo Brand

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

Try to remember that the 'bottomless sea' can't hurt us as long as we keep on swimming. — C.S. Lewis

Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? — George Carlin

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive. — Allen Tate

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality. — Michael Phelps

We're all a little tired. — Michael Phelps

It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit. — Michael Connelly

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. — Natalie Wood

Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go. — Mark Spitz

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

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best. — Arthur Ernest Morgan

The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is. — Steven D. Levitt

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. — Lionel Trilling

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen

You're swimming with sharks, that pitiless voice snapped. Either grow some teeth or get eaten. — Jeaniene Frost

It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember (from Swimming Upstream). — Ruth Mancini

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap. — Lewis Black

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life. — Betty Ford

Into the day as by dream I swim
To the music of nourished meaning. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown," he says, and raises his thin eyebrows. "So keep swimming, right? — Pierce Brown

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it. — David Bowers

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. — Dennis E. Adonis

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter — Jesse McCartney

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales? — Charles Saatchi

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo. — Zhu Zhu

Without goals, training has no direction. — Natalie Coughlin

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.
Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer. — Jennifer Lane

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast. — Mads Mikkelsen

Oftentimes they are seen swimming around the surf zones and can swim very close to the shoreline. — Lisa Evans

It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out. — Brittany MacLean

The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop. — Gertrude Ederle

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down. — Elizabeth Wein

Some kind of ugly is always swimming about. Beyond — Kate Wolford

I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales. — April Mae Monterrosa

Surviving in the township is like swimming in the ocean one mistake you drown — Thabiso Monkoe

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted. — Sarah Hall

Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts — Grand Puba

If your head isn't wet, you can't say you have been swimming. — Mary W. Walters

Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide. — Niall Quinn

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy. — Michelle Williams

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. — Jimmy Carter

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one. — Joan Didion

Swimming against strong currents is how you prove you are a great swimmer. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Two people were swimming in the sea
One was alive and the other dead. See. — Barbara Comyns

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening. — Michael Phelps

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun. — Missy Franklin

There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming. — Frederick Weisel

There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He — Terry Pratchett

What do you do when you're swimming with sharks? You make sure you're the biggest, most badass thing in the pool. — Pippa DaCosta

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd. — Michael Phelps

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone. — Marc Levy

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same. — Plato

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me. — Janet Fitch

My head is my favorite swimming pool. — Lauren DeStefano

I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating. — Cheryl Hines

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky. — Brian May

There's an old saying in swimming - "Don't drown." At least there should be. I may have just Michael Phelpsed myself, but it's all gold. — Jarod Kintz

It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard. — Haruki Murakami

Ah, well, my mother told me that if wishes were fishes, we would all be swimming in riches. Ok, tell me about these two facilities. — Craig Alanson

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple. — Terry Pratchett

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked. — Michael Phelps

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps — Michael Phelps

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. — John Shelby Spong

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. — Sam Walton

I feel like I've been swimming in the open ocean and now I'm exhausted and floating. — Lindy Zart

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it. — Stan Musial

If not you, then who? If not now, then when? — Andrzej Kolikowski

What i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. — Sonia Sanchez

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over. — Ryan Lochte

The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never get scared or turned all over — J.D. Salinger

The clouds looked like ethereal creatures, sky-fish swimming across the blue expanse, following the sun to the other side of the world. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes. — Rainbow Rowell

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. — Lewis Gordon Pugh