236 Quotes About Swimming

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

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

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

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

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

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

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

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

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