#swim

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#adds #am #being #believer #big

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#ago #bit #continue #east #exile

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#comfortable #home #i #know #me

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#change the world #how #i #i can #maximum

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#better time #history #honor #i #level

I try to separate my personal life from swimming. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#life #personal #personal life #separate #swimming

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#along #back #change #change things #coming

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#compared #compliments #could #ever #get

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#always #back #end #even #getting