"If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming."
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"You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem."
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"That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer."
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"At the end of October I started doing a bit more swimming and learning how to swim properly, because I hadn't really done it since I was at school. Then I really accelerated in December and for the whole of January's I've been doing at least one thing a day - normally a swim and a cycle, or a swim and a run, every single day."
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"Also it'll be unbelievably cold in there and the thing I'm probably most worried about is my face. That sounds silly but it's very difficult, if you're in cold temperature water, to get your head under because it takes your breath away. And then your hands go numb so you try and wriggle your fingers while swimming to warm up. It's very tough."
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"I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off."
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"Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap."
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"I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking."
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"I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations."
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"I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum."
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"What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!"
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"My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool."
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"I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one."
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"I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final."
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"For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy."
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