#swim

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #swim




Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.


Johnny Weissmuller


#gave #me #nicely #pal #real

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.


Esther Williams


#damage #enough #football #football player #frame

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.


Esther Williams


#character #develop #discipline #first #girl

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.


Esther Williams


#beverly hills #daily #despite #hills #hotel

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.


Esther Williams


#bathing #bathing suit #could #done #gone

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.


Esther Williams


#featuring #illustrated #issues #life #magazine

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.


Esther Williams


#exciting #existence #gave #hint #home

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.


Natalie Wood


#film #film stars #had #home #i

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.


Robert Wyatt


#avant-garde #because #bit #i #i think

I'm still swimming.


Ian Thorpe


#still #swimming