Swimming Quotes

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

Goes, Naked, Discover

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

Good, Writing, Water

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.
Demetri Martin

Fun, Die, Sometimes

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

Down, Said, Write

What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.
Corey Haim

Good, Girl, Feeling

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

Wife, Wanted, Often

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
Tom Hiddleston

Girl, Learned, Dream

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman

Life, Deep, Water

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Good, God

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

Strength, Against, Knows

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Great, Art

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.
Robert Collier

Nothing, Goal, Against

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
Michael Phelps

Home, Normal, Relaxed

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
Michael Phelps

Change, Test, Maximum

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
Shia LaBeouf

Through, Dream, Class

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
Miley Cyrus

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.
Michael Phelps

Time, History, Try

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
Tim Vine

Said, Depends, Calling

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
Al Pacino

Live, Stars, Actor

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
Michael Phelps

Age, Forward, Past

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
Mia Hamm

Love, Gymnastics, Watching

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.
Gary Oldman

Heart, Father, Him

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
Boris Johnson

Love, Remember, Once

When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.
David Walliams

Fun, Everything, Put

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
Michael Phelps

Life, Try, Personal

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

Home, Stars, Film

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
Jo Brand

Time, School, Sea

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
Jo Brand

Friends, Big, Actually

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.
Colin Firth

Living, Reason, Intentions

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.
Debbie Meyer

Life, Fun, Yourself

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