Everyone who’s great – play any sport, tennis, basketball, football, volleyball, swimming, don’t matter, everyone’s failed. Everyone’s gonna fail. It’s how you bounce back.
Sydney has the world’s best swimming pool. Walk through the Botanical Gardens and you come to the Andrew ‘Boy’ Charlton Pool on Mrs Macquaries Road, with incredible views of Finger Wharf and the Harbour.
I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
Though I do not know much swimming, I am glad that both my children are getting better at it day by day.
I like cycling and swimming and walking everywhere. I’m not going to the gym. I like being outside rather than inside a room.
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
It’s nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking – but I’m down here eating pretty for two weeks and I’m ready to go back to New York City.
I’ve actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that’s the goal. I want to get on that podium – I really do. But for me, that’s not something I can control… so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I’m proud of.
Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I’m back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I’m home, too.
I’ve grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven’t been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
At school I hated swimming and felt bigger and more self-conscious than all the other girls – and I would go to summer sports camps to desperately try to change my shape so that it couldn’t be one of the taunts aimed at me by bullies.
I can’t really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.
As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.
I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Being a pro athlete doesn’t mean you treat your body right, even though it’s so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it’s a process and part of the commitment.
I did everything – swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.
I think simple’s good. That’s why I enjoy swimming. It’s very primitive, very simple.
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike – if I go too slowly, I’ll fall over. Or it’s kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I’ll just die.
I’m so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they’re really not that bad.
Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don’t want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
I’m quite a simple person really; I love pottering about, walking and swimming.
I was a lifeguard and taught swimming lessons when I was in high school.
In conclusion, swimming is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to adapt, overcome challenges, and find solace in the embrace of water. It teaches us the importance of perseverance, mindfulness, and harmony with our surroundings. Whether you are a competitive swimmer or someone who simply enjoys the serenity of a pool or open water, may these quotes resonate with you and remind you of the profound connection we can forge with the water. Dive in, embrace the flow, and let swimming become a metaphor for navigating the currents of life.
