Swim quotes
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"When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash."
"Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim."
"I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime."
"I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse."
"One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim."
"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
"I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train."
"You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins."
"You have to be able to swim in backlash."
"If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England."
"No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom."
"I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim."
"I've never regretted a swim"
"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken."
"I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too."
"We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings."
"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."
"The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die."
"I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour."
"I swim a lot. I swim most days."
