Swimming Quotes, Sayings for Swimmers, Swim Quotations
Don’t wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it.
~Author Unknown
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
~Abraham Maslow
The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.
~Aleksandr Popov
H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession.
~Author Unknown
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.
~Russian Proverb
Chlorine is my perfume.
~Author Unknown
If the world was flat I’d probably swim off it.
~Author Unknown
It’s a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim.
~Author Unknown
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
~Steven Wright
Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim.
~Author Unknown
Seventy-five percent of our planet is water – can you swim?
~Author Unknown
What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn.
~Author Unknown
Seven days of no swimming makes one weak.
~Author Unknown
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
~Bruce Lee
When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.
~Author Unknown
If you have a lane, you have a chance.
~Author Unknown
Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.
~Author Unknown
Oxygen is overrated.
~Author Unknown
Swimming – what real men do while boys play football.
~Author Unknown
He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer.
~Author Unknown
Chlorine: the breakfast of champions!
~Author Unknown
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
~P.G. Wodehouse
We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes.
~Author Unknown
I simply can’t understand why swimsuits are in such demand. They’re soggy and damp, bind like a clamp, and hold about three pounds of sand!
~D.R. Benson
I can’t fly, but swimming is the next best thing…. The water is my sky.
~Author Unknown
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
~Jerome Fleishman
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
~Mark Twain
Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement.
~Paul Tsongas
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
~Author Unknown
Well, me don’t swim too tough so me don’t go in the water too deep.
~Bob Marley
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~Thomas Jefferson
It’s been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don’t see it. We don’t get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can’t stop and catch our breath, we can’t roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can’t ask for a substitution.
~Author Unknown
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas Macaulay
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
~Proverb
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It’s either that or buy a new golf ball.
~Gene Perret
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
~Author Unknown
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
~Jack Handy
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
~Woodrow T. Wilson
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
~Edsger Dijkstra
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can’t Swim.”
~Lyndon B. Johnson