In this post I present 68 Phrases about swimming Of great swimmers like Michael Phelps, Ian Thorpe or Mark Spitz.
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1-Swimming is more than a sport once every four years. My goal is to draw attention to swimming, to give it something of personality. -Michael Phelps.
2-There is water in every way, so that's fine. -Ian Thorpe.
3-I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow to learn something you'll never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know that you can conquer your fears. Heidi Klum
4-I concentrate on preparing myself to swim my career and let the other swimmers think of me, not me in them. -Amanda Beard.
5-I want to be able to look back and say, 'I have done all I could, and I succeeded.' I do not want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I would like to change things for the arrival of the generation of younger swimmers. -Michael Phelps.
6-Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I am comfortable, and I know what surrounds me. It is my home. -Michael Phelps.
7-I swam the race as I trained to swim in it. He is not a mathematician. I just left my soul in it. It is much easier if you let your body do what it is trained to do. -Ian Thorpe.
8-Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times, you do it in order not to die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is. -Demetri Martin.
9-Swimming is not everything, winning is. Mark Spitz.
10-I want to test my maximum limit and see how much I can do, I want to change the world of swimming. -Michael Phelps.
11-Mostly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, I am a firm believer that you should continue swimming as long as you continue to enjoy yourself, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about sport, about life, and about Everything else about yourself. -Scott Goldblatt.
12-Water is as essential to me as swimming. -Natasha Kinski.
13-I have the opportunity to be part of the history of swimming. It would be an honor for me to take the sport to a new level. There is no better time to try this than now. -Michael Phelps.
14-Remember, regularly, do the things you enjoy apart from swimming. -Ian Thorpe.
15-I have enjoyed training again, in the pool I have enjoyed striving myself and will continue swimming until I feel that I can not get anything more from myself. -Ian Thorpe.
16-I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying again to get the golf swing, but that could take a little longer. -Sean Connery.
17-Swimming is probably the most exhausting of sports. It is ironic because millions of people who swim like their usual exercise love the meditative aspect of it. You do not end up with any orthopedic injury, but when you swim at a world-class level for hours and hours, it's just as solitary as the long distance runner. -Diana Nyad.
18-I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean, and in the pool. -Catherine Zeta Jones.
19-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 are not enjoying it, do not do it. Life is too short. -Debbie Meyer.
20-I love everything about the ocean. Swimming, diving or surfing are all fun, and they distract your mind from being, really, doing an exercise. Being outside in the sun and salt water is great to free your mind and feel alive. -Samantha Stosur.
21-I run, but the preparation of boxing is different, you have to get used to running in the ring. The boxing moves are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard on things that mimic boxing. I have to do above all specific sport training, such as heaps of sparring. -Wladimir Klitschko.
22-I walked away from the sport for 17 years, and recently, I went back to swimming in a master's degree course. Mark Spitz.
23-Swimming is my passion and something I love. -Natalie du Toit.
24-I really can not run on hard ground like I used to. Instead, I go swimming as often as I can. -Jamie Dornan.
25-When I was six years old, just before we started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and saw Michael Phelps swimming, I met him later, and got his autograph. Fast forward the next nine years, and here I am at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'wow!'. Katie Ledecky.
26-In swimming, especially training in the ocean and in open water, you have goggles, you are stuck with your own thoughts, there are great benefits in a deep thought like that after many hours, but there is also a tremendous loneliness. You get tired. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So, at the age of 30, I decided to finish. -Diana Nyad.
27-I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and get more involved in the sport. -Ryan Lochte.
28-I could not do it on the high school swim team. In fact, I was expelled from the swimming team and I was forced to audition for the school play because there were about 35 girls at the audition and no boy, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do better for the department Of drama than what he was doing for the swim team. -Ron Perlman.
29-I like sports and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercise keeps you fit and healthy, while helping you to work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do a better job. -Xi Jinping.
30-Swimming gave me my starting point, but my friend 'Tarzan' did the real work. I did very well. -Johnny Weissmüller.
31-Swimming has its educational value: mental, moral and physical, giving you a sense of mastery over an element, the power to save lives, and the development of breath and limbs. -Robert Baden Powell.
32-I have never won many prizes, I did not get certified for swimming or anything else. -Karl Pilkington.
33-I try to separate my personal life from swimming. -Michael Phelps.
34-The swimming community is really conservative. I do not understand why. -Amanda Beard.
"Swimming took so much of my faculties for so long, and I was willing to give it all. -Aaron Peirsol.
36-Swimming is one of the most difficult sports. -Stephanie Rice.
37-When you're doing endurance swimming you have to eat as many carbs as you can to put as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be great fun. Everything is free from guilt. "David Walliams.
38-I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swimming team and I wanted to do what he did. I was told I had to have six, but if I could swim a lap then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history. -Summer Sanders.
39-Swimming is excellent because there are levels of goals. First, when he was four, he was to reach the other end and overcome the fear of standing in front of everyone in a swimming encounter, because he was a shy child. -Summer Sanders.
40-Swimming is fun. It is much more fun than golf. -Michael Phelps.
"Why is it so important that I'm swimming?" -Michael Phelps.
Even in high school, I would tell my mom that I was sick of swimming and that I wanted to try playing golf. She was not very happy about it and said, 'Think about this,' and I always ended up going back to the pool. -Michael Phelps.
43-This is my twentieth year in the sport. I have known how to swim and that is all. I do not want to swim after 30 years; If I continue after these Olympics, and I return in 2016, I will be 31 years old. I hope I can see the other side of the fence. -Michael Phelps.
44-It's great because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening. -Michael Phelps.
45-One thing with me, is that every goal I've had in the sport of swimming, my mother did not know. The only people who knew my goals were my coaches. -Michael Phelps.
46-I think for most people it's hard to understand what swimming is all about, I mean it's a solo effort. -Stephanie Rice.
47-For me, a big part of swimming is that I love it and it's super fun. Missy Franklin.
48-I'm just happy when I'm swimming like a fish. -Duke Kahanamoku.
"It has nothing to do with swimming. That is what sport is all about. I'm trying to see how far I can go. Mark Spitz.
50-I love swimming because I can compete. -Ryan Lochte.
51-I'm big on fashion, so after swimming, when I hang my Speedo mesh, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line. -Ryan Lochte.
52. There is more to me than swimming. I like to go out and have fun, go to dance, go out with my friends. -Ryan Lochte.
53-I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very fashionable. It's something I really want to focus on when the swim is over. -Ryan Lochte.
54-The swimming community is very small, but why can not it be as big as the NBA or the NFL? -Ryan Lochte.
55-With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I can eat almost anything and it does not affect me, but I do not. -Ryan Lochte.
"I'm really looking forward to concentrating on swimming instead of what's going on with me outside the pool. -Eric Shanteau.
57-Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in it. -Eric Shanteau.
58-After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level. -Eric Shanteau.
59-I enjoyed every small part of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice: enjoy what you do. -Summer Sanders.
I love swimming. When I jump into the water, I feel like I am 12 years old again. It's very funny how that makes me feel. -Summer Sanders.
"It really was my brother who got me into swimming. I wanted to be like him and do everything I was doing. -Summer Sanders.
62-In swimming, everyone calls me 'grandma', because I'm the oldest there. With my friends, I am the youngest and the 'baby'. It's definitely bizarre. -Amanda Beard.
63-I always tell people that I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom, and I'm a better mom, because I'm a swimmer. -Amanda Beard.
"I really love to swim, but I hate jumping into the water. "Natalie Coughlin.
"You could still see me swimming because, really, I'm enjoying the sport. But at the same time, I have this ticking biological clock. -Libby Trickett.
66-In Athletics, old runners tend to go for more runs, but in swimming it's the other way around, because your body can not handle resistance. -Kirsty Coventry.
"I'm up before five in the morning." Breakfast, then I do swimming, pilates, weight training and physical therapy. I am constantly moving from one thing to another. Everyone is busy, but that is my occupation. "Natalie Coughlin.
"When I started swimming two years ago, I felt like I was starting from scratch. My mental preparation was to tell myself that every time I swam, it was going to be easier, and it was. When you are working toward a fitness goal, you just have to start. It will not be nice, your body will scream at you, but at the same time you will improve. -Jane Evans.