Stephanie Rice Quotes

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

I'm still swimming.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

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

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

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.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

I swim more or less every day.

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 swim a lot. I swim most days.

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

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.

It's always great to see young swimmers and their excitement and the joy that they have in the water.

I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.