You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. . . If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!
My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.
I swim, I do Pilates, I meditate - I think it's about keeping your stress level as low as you can.
Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul. . . we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica. . . You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.
I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. That’s love.
Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.
And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
I'm one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I'm meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.
But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.