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.
Swimming, trekking, outdoor sports activities have been a part of life right from childhood through youth.
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.
It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; it’s the war against it that does all the violence.
Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
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.
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.
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'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.
I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
Swimming's been a part of my life very much so since around age 4, and I never really dropped it.
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness
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.
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.
I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.
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.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.
Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.
I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: 'Wow, he looks great.'
Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim
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.
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.
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 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.
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.
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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.
A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.
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.
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.
Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.
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 am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.
I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes
It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.
I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.
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.
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.
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.
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.
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.
I love to watch movies, go swimming and just chill. Fun stuff relaxes me.
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.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
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.
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