Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old swimming quotes, swimming sayings, and swimming proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.Amanda Beard
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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 moveAlexandr Popov
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Enjoy swimming for swimmings sake. We have to spend far too much time in the water to not enjoy the process challenging yourself of moving through the waterJeff Rouse
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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
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.Woodrow T. Wilson
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It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim.Unkown
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Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.Diana Nyad
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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.Robert Collier
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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
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Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can t explain it.Unkown
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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.Dusty Hicks
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.Russian Proverb
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.W. C. Fields
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Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement.Paul Tsongas
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She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing thereJulia Gregson
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The water doesn't know how old you are.Dara Torres
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There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.Frederick Weisel
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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
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Swimming - what real men do while boys play football.Unkown
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Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.Michael Phelps
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This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.Dennis Rodman
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Swimming isn't everything, winning is.Mark Spitz
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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.Merlin Olsen
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I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.Jill Clayburgh
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If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.Tea Leoni
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.Malcolm Muggeridge
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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
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.Warren Buffett
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.W. C. Fields
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Let us swim together in the ocean of our being.Jonathan Lockwood Huie