Top 1009 Swimming Upstream Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I have been able to buy a house with a swimming pool and everything we do now is completely transformed compared to what it was like when I was an electrician.

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

All my male friends are into fitness and though I go gymming and swimming, I find yoga and spinning at the gym very boring.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; it’s the war against it that does all the violence.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

When I decided to keep swimming I made the decision to just do it based off enjoying it and making lots of friends out of it.

You have to bring this ball over this line and into this rectangle. It is not like synchronised swimming, where you are judged by your unbelievably beautiful performance.

My brother and I like to swim. We've been doing that our whole lives. Swimming and jump rope are two of the main things we do.

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: 'Wow, he looks great.'

When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown.

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

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness.

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

Rushing around my restaurants and doing a lot of walking when I film in Italy and a bit of swimming and running keeps me thin.

Swimming, trekking, outdoor sports activities have been a part of life right from childhood through youth.

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me of summers at the beach.

Swimming's been a part of my life very much so since around age 4, and I never really dropped it.

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

I really live for the racing, the moments in those races where everything slows down even though you're swimming as fast as possible.

I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.

I am not really a fan of beaches or lying by swimming pools, and as I have quite sensitive skin, the sun is my enemy.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

For people who believe that they can't do it, I hope I'm an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

I was very into swimming, but I was never into contact sports. I think it was because I knew I wasn't going to get damaged.

When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California.

I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

I still have some synchronized swimming moves in my back pocket from camp when I was 8. I can really wow people at a pool party.