But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
Quotes about swimmer (16 Quotes)
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashedinto angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of thecurrent... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
I asked an endurance swimmer, 'How is it possible for you to swim for twenty hours What kind of mental attitude do you have' She said, 'I believe that the water is a friend. It wants to help me. It does not fight against me and I do not fight against it. We are working together.' I often think of that when I am in the swim of life. The waves and currents and the tides hit us all at times, and it is not always easy to say, 'The water is friendly.' It requires an act of faith, a volitional act it means work, but most of all it requires a will to believe. the more we use this will, the more it becomes a part of us and the more natural becomes its application.
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
Megan slipped right under the times. As a rookie swimmer, that is a great accomplishment.
It's a big step for Jake. His 100-yard fly time was phenomenal. He led the first half of the race before another swimmer pulled ahead. He also had a real strong race in the 100-yard freestyle. He was still riding the high from his time in the 100-yard fly.
I need to push through some mental issues, some things that are holding me back from going fast. Being top five at state would be a great accomplishment, because there hasn't been a swimmer at North to do that in a long time.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Swimmer, your body is pure as the water;
cook, your blood is quick as the soil.
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.
People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?