65 Quotes by Esther Williams

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

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.

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

She had gone from famous to infamous to notorious and was now regarded as something of a menace to polite society.

My first event was the 100-meter freestyle, the top event of the meet, competing against the best in the nation, over 100 swimmers.