Quotes and Sayings

The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.
- Aleksandr Popov

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
- Henry C. Link

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.
- Russian Proverb

Swimming isn’t everything, winning is.
- Mark Spitz

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim?
- Author Unknown

What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn.
- Author Unknown

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
- Bruce Lee

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.
- Author Unknown

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
- Esther Williams

Swimming - what real men do while boys play football.
- Author Unknown

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

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.
- Michael Phelps

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.
- Jerome Fleishman

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
- Johnny Weissmuller

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
- Edsger Dijkstra

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
- Jack Handy

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
- John Oates

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
- Merlin Olsen

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
- Nastassja Kinski

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

I love sailing and water sports; whether it’s water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.
- Karolina Kurkova

Swimming is : Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

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