Swimming Sayings

Watch a swimmer glide through the waters with the ease of a dolphin. Notice how powerful strokes slice the water like a warm knife on butter. Does that inspire you to learn to swim? Do you feel the urge to dive in and find your soul? Swimming sayings teach you to plunge into the ocean of life. Every wave signifies a new challenge. Everyone has to learn to ride the waves. With a heart of sheer resolve, you can swim through life and emerge a winner. These swimming sayings will inspire you.

Abraham Maslow
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.

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

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

Mark Twain
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Paul Tsongas
Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement.

Aleksandr Popov
The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

Mark Spitz
Swimming isn’t everything, winning is.

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

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

Merlin Olsen
Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

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

Jimmy Carter
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Joan Rivers
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else and we strive to swim on top.

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

Jerome Fleishman
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.

Nastassja Kinski
Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Jack Handy
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

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