Swimming Quotes

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

When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.
Author Unknown

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

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

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.
Author Unknown

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.
Alexandr Popov

Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself.
Scott Goldblatt

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

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.
Leisel Jones

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.
Russian Proverb

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

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.
Philippine proverb

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
William Wordsworth

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain

Filthy water cannot be washed.
African Proverb

Our bodies are molded rivers.
Novalis

If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.
Loren Eisley