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" A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. "
Melody Carlson
" About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this. "
Diana Nyad
" Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get. "
Chris Klein
" A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. "
Paul Watson
" After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level. "
Eric Shanteau
" A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun. "
Missy Franklin
" All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
" Although I come from the world of swimming... my strong point is the running race, and it is the one I enjoy the most. It's where I have had a slight edge over my rivals. "
Francisco Javier Gomez Noya
" As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic. "
Alice Dreger
" As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower. "
Dana Torres
" As long as I'm enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming. "
Cate Campbell
" As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds. "
Darell Hammond
" As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care. "
Robert Reich
" At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.' "
Courteney Cox
" Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with. "
Natalie du Toit
" Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far. "
Rachel Miner
" Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. "
Lionel Trilling
" Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment. "
Summer Sanders
" 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
" Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool. "
Eric Shanteau
" Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea. "
Monique Roffey
" Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls. "
Lucy Powell
" Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence. "
Seth Shostak
" Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984. "
Douglas Brunt
" During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport. "
Chad le Clos
" Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall. "
Adam Peaty
" Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle. "
Graham Joyce
" Finding original source material is not easy, but when something special like 'Edge of Tomorrow' comes along, everybody recognized it. I wasn't swimming against the stream. Warner Brothers immediately supported it, Tom Cruise signed on instantly; Emily Blunt, who was our first choice, signed on immediately. "
Doug Liman
" For people who believe that they can't do it, I hope I'm an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it. "
Simone Manuel
" For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. "
Diana Nyad
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