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

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

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.
Michael Phelps

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

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

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
Liv Ullmann

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.
Esther Williams

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.
Cedric Hardwicke

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
Roger Moore

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

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

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.
Brian May

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.
Mila Kunis

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.
Stevie Smith

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

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

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

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.
Shimon Peres

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
Ian Botham

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