Swimmer Quotes

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life;

but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies;

it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.

We are like a ship fastened to the shore.

It floats on the water of the sea, but it does not leave its moorings; it merely bobs up and down. We are like a swimmer who prefers to walk rather than take to the water. O my God, sever these moorings, loosen the thread from the wings of my soul, plunge me into the sea.

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons.

They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while.

It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit.

If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago.

That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer.

I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

I always had really long swimmer's arms.

The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.