Swimming Ability Quotes

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

President Can't Swim.

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.

When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.

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

Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

I'm a really good swimmer.

All my black friends can't swim. Is that bad?

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of that because I feel like I'm going to drown!

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

I don't like the ocean. I'm not a natural swimmer, even though I come from Australia. That' a terrible thing to say.

When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.

I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.

Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.

I once saved someone from drowning.