Famous Quotes - Tags - Swimming

  • ... marathon swimming is the most difficult physical, intellectual and emotional battleground I... More
  • ... the reason I keep doing it is for the tremendous rush I get at the end of any great swim....... More
  • A better swimmer you could scarce see ever,
    He could, perhaps, have pass’d the... More
  • Alice: I put swimsuits in boxes six days a week.
    George: Yeah. What about Sunday? Maybe then... More
  • As the swimmer depends on water, so the writer depends on language. To swim well, we must let... More
  • From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I... More
  • His bold head
    ‘Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oared
    Himself with his good arms... More
  • I alternate treading water
    and deadman’s float. More
  • I saw him beat the surges under him,
    And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
    Whose... More
  • It was like passing a boundary to dive
    Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed
    And... More
  • Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It’s grueling.... More
  • Leander, who was nightly wont
    (What maid will not the tale remember?)
    To cross thy... More
  • Sad mortals! thus the gods still plague you!
    He lost his labor, I my jest;
    For he was... More
  • Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
    To the dead Mother’s face, whose subtile... More
  • The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress... More
  • The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to
    the sun, they do not ask who... More
  • There was a young lady of Ryde
    Who was carried far out by the tide.
    Cried a man-eating... More
  • Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
    Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; More
  • What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same... More
  • When we’re in the water, we’re not in this world. More

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