#swimming

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

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'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

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#go #happens #how #how far #i

When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free. ↗

— David Walliams

#carbs #doing #eat #endurance #everything

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

— Warren Buffett

#discover #goes #naked #only #out

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#hate #i #jumping #just #love

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#excellent #exercise #i #i do #i think

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#amazing thing #away #believe #expression #fight