Don’t wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it.

The water is your friend. You don�t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.
Aleksandr Popov

Swimming isn�t everything, winning is.

H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession.

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

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.
Russian Proverb

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

Chlorine is my perfume.

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn�t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

If the world was flat I’d probably swim off it.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

It’s a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim.

I love sailing and water sports; whether it�s water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water – can you swim?

Swimming is : Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn.

All good writing is swimming
under water and holding your breath.

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak.

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

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
Bruce Lee

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming – being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it. Life’s too short.

If you have a lane, you have a chance.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can�t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can�t explain it.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn’t see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Swimming – what real men do while boys play football.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer.

I enjoy tennis, though don’t play very often nowadays, and skiing… oh yes and swimming.

Chlorine: the breakfast of champions!

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
P.G. Wodehouse

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.

We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes.

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.

I can’t fly, but swimming is the next best thing…. The water is my sky.

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
Jerome Fleishman

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
Mark Twain

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

Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement.
Paul Tsongas

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Well, me don’t swim too tough so me don’t go in the water too deep.
Bob Marley

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

I think I’d struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

It’s been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don’t see it. We don’t get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can’t stop and catch our breath, we can’t roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can’t ask for a substitution.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master’s program.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas Macaulay

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
Proverb

There�s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didn�t say, �I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.�

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It’s either that or buy a new golf ball.
Gene Perret

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Be a fish swimming against the current, and be a tree swaying against the breeze.

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
Jack Handy

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow T. Wilson

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can’t Swim.”
Lyndon B. Johnson

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.