Anders Holm Quotes

I swam in high school.

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.

Both my kids are international swimmers and national champions.

I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.

Adam Peaty is far and away the best swimmer in the world, and he's British. He set a world record - but the day after we were talking about my dress.

Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.

I swam for the county when I was 12. You wouldn't think it to look at me now, but I'm as graceful as a seal.

I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles.

I beat Olympians.

I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.

I know from my experience as a swimmer that you put in the work and practice, and come game day, your body is ready, and you just have to trust your training.

I love standing up behind the blocks, and I love that moment just before you dive in and it goes quiet, and you take a deep breath and you just dive, and then you try and win, but that moment just before I go, that's why I race.

The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

If there is a sport that I'm not particularly fond of, then it is synchronized swimming.

Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and as soon as I was old enough, I joined a swim team. By 10, I was winning local events.

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.