Rulon Gardner Quotes

I swam my brains out.

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

I'm very fast, I'm very strong, and I work a lot.

I swam in high school.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

I swim more or less every day.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I swim a lot. I swim most days.