236 Quotes About Swimming

"Without goals, training has no direction."

"In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish."

"I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine."

"In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly."

"I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers."

"The swimmers are swimming out of their socks."

"Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet."

"I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!"

"If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks."