Motivational Swimming Quotes

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

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

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

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

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.

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

I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

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

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

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

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

You can't put a limit anything.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

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

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.