Swimming Experience Quotes

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.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

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.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

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

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

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

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

I'm fortunate to have an amazing, strong mother who is so supportive of everything me and my sisters did growing up - but she was someone who never forced us to go swim or to go do this or that. She helped us think about certain consequences when we needed to, but we made our own decisions. I think if I were forced to swim, I wouldn't have stayed in the pool as long as I did.

I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.

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