I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn’t hold my attention. I couldn’t figure skate. I’m afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
You can score goals at youth level but men’s football teaches you things. It teaches you real football and you realise that this game is sink or swim.
We don’t need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
I’ve always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
When you prepare for something, it’s like jumping into cold water, but you’re prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don’t swim, you drown.
I can’t surf, so I swim. It’s the best workout I’ve ever known because it works your entire body.
When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.
If you don’t have to worry about money or how you’ll travel to a swim meet, that’s so nice to not have that stress. You can just train.
I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.
Sometimes it’s like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, ‘Don’t die. Keep moving your arms.’ It’s kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there’s a lot of trust afforded.
I love Turner Network television; I love Adult Swim. That’s actually how I got my start on Cartoon Network was through Adult Swim, originally. I had a special appearance on ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force!’
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’
I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave… walking the plank… willingly… It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
They always say start at the bottom if you want to learn something. But suppose you want to learn to swim?
My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the working day, then we go to our local health club for a swim and to sit by the pool and read for a while.
No matter whether you’re an Olympic swimmer or you’re someone who doesn’t like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can’t be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If it’s nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it’s very private and not too many people use it.
I can’t swim and I’m terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water – just not in it.
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
I cycle every weekend. Sometimes I swim.
It’s always nerve-wracking when you’re hosting ‘Saturday Night Live.’ You either sink or swim.
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus.’
I don’t really have a fitness regime. I swim regularly and hit the gym once in a while but I also eat a lot.
It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
Whatever other people expect me to do, whatever they’re comparing me to, I don’t care. I’m just trying to swim fast.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.
I can’t swim.
I don’t know how to swim.
If you fight improperly, you can be in great shape, run marathons, swim 200 meters and I can still gas you in two minutes of a fight. If you don’t know how to fight, it doesn’t matter.
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die – if you are found wanting over a period of time, you’ve either got to change what you’re doing or find something else to do.
I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don’t like subjectivity. I love where I’m faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don’t want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.
I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.
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.
I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men’s pond. It’s an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.
