1- Swimming is the only
sport where you go from point A to point A and work like hell to get there.
2 - Somewhere behind the athlete you've become, the hours of practice, the coaches who
pushed you, the team-mates who believed in you, and the fans who cheered for you is the
little child who swam all those laps for fun-the one who fell in love with the water and
never looked back...swim for him.
3 - You know you're a swimmer when ...You see nothing wrong in saying :
" I'll show you my breast, if you will show me your fly. "
4 - We do it better where it's wetter.
5 - Train past the pain : make waves, not excuses !!!
6 - It only hurts for one minute, then it feels great.
7 - I ask not for a lighter burden, but broader shoulder. (proverb)
8 - The harder you stroke it the faster you finish.
9 - Swim now, breathe later.
10 - Strokes and turns can break my bones, but only my coaches can hurt me.
11 - If swimming were any easier, they would call it football.
12 - Swimming makes the world a better place !!
13 - A hard practice is like eating your veggies, you hate it while you are doing it but
it helps you out in the end.
14 - Dont be discouraged by other swimmers, because, deep down, their just as afraid as
you are !!
15 - What my swim coach said to me after being timed for 100 free...
Coach: I have good news and bad news.
Me: What’s the good news ?
Coach: Your fly time is better than your free time.
Me: Ok, and the bad news ?
Coach: Your fly time isn't supposed to be better than your free.
16 - You know you're a swimmer when you can leave the wall in the middle of a sentence,
come back to the wall, and pick up the conversation right where you left off.
17 - Swimming is 10% chlorine and 90% intensity !
18 - The people who say swimming is not a real sport are right, swimming is more than a
sport, it’s a way of life.
19 - There are 2 kinds of people in this world : SWIMMERS and those who wish they
were !!!
20 - The people who say slow and steady wins the race have obviously never won a race.
21 - Excuses used by other sports :
- it’s raining
- the field’s too muddy
- we have to wax the floors
- it’s too hot
- it’s too cold
- ripped my uniform
- etc.
That’s what’s great about swimming : you can always find a way around the
problems, no matter what... This is what happens to us if there's a change :
- holiday : doubles
- rain : who cares ?
- if the pool’s closed, we do dry land
- if it’s too hot, take a cold shower
- if its too cold, take a hot shower
- if you rip your suit, good more drag
22 - Shoot for the moon, and even if you miss you'll land among the stars...
23 - Swimming isn't life... it's more important than that !
24 - Swimmers are angels because were the only people who can FLY.
25 - Swimming is for thinkers not dumb dumbs.
26 - You know you're a swimmer when you itch and burn every time you sweat.
27 – Swimmers : they spend 50% of their life 70% naked.
28 – Swimming’s got more kick than soccer will ever have !
29 - Good enough often isn’t.
30 - H2O : 2 parts heart, 1 part obsession.
31 - Swimming is a sport, everything else is just a game.
32 - Actions speak louder than coaches.
33 - The key to swimming better is better swimming.
34 - Swimming does not build character. It reveals it.
35 - Swimming is what real girls do when the others paint their nails !
36 - The race starts long before you step up onto the block.
37 - Don't compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.
38 - The planning and training can be very good, but it is what the swimmer makes of it.
39 - Complaining is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get
you anywhere.
40 - It's not about what you can and can't do, it's about what you will and won't do.
41 - I've been told swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get time outs
in a middle of a race, we can't stop and catch our breath, and utmost, there are no
substitutions !
42 - A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be
who you've always wanted to be.
43 - In the end, swimming is not about what you achieve, it is about who you become.
44 - Not all athletes wear shoes !
45 - You think you deserve it because you want it ? It doesn't work that way. You have to
earn it. You have to take it. You have to make it yours.
46 - I always wanted to be Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. I can't fly but swimming
is the next best thing. It's harmony and balance. The water is my sky.
47 - Faith can move mountains, doubt can create them.
48 - My dog can do everything faster than me : eat, run, breath, etc.- except swim.
49 - Pain is weakness leaving the body.
50 - You know when you are a swimmer when you start singing a song in your head while
swimming a 500, but somehow still have a feeling of when you have finished the 500.
51 - Seven days without swimming makes one weak !!!!!
52 - It's easy to train hard when you're feeling great. Training hard when you're not
feeling great will bring you to a new level.
53 - Champions are made, not born !
54 - The pride you gain, is worth the pain.
55 - Only a swimmer knows how long a hundredth of a second really is and how much it
matters.
56 - Swimming, the only spot where instead of paying 60+ dollars for shoes that fit
perfectly and feel great, you pay the same for a suit that’s 4 sizes too small, feels
ever so uncomfortable, but have the most joy in wearing it.
57 - You know you're a swimmer when you can only ever buy one style of goggles because all
others don't fit the permanent goggles marks on your face.
58 - People may doubt what you say, but will always believe what you accomplish.
59 - I swim therefore I am.
60 - Swimming isn't just a sport, it's a way of life.
61 - In swimming, the only thing you can break is your goggles, the coach won't believe
anything else.
62 - Swimming is the only sport where the toughest opponent is you.
63 - You know you're a swimmer when sleeping in your suit is a norm.
64 - There is no "I" in relay.
65 - There is a split second between winning and loosing, you train for that second.
66 - You are never given a wish without also given the power to make the wish come true,
but you may have to work for it.
67 - Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.
68 - People often say that motivation doesn't last. Neither does bathing, that's why we
recommend it every day.
69 - Swimming is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you.
70 - Swimming is like photography : if you don't focus, you'll only get a negative.
71 - You don't know swimming until you try it... You don't know chlorine until you taste
it... You're not a swimmer until you live it...
72 - Put your heart into a race and your body will follow.
73 - If you do not consciously form good habits, you will unconsciously form bad ones.
74 - Only those risking to go far will ever know how far they can go.
75 - Swim each practice as if it was the most important practice of the year.
76 - The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
77 - Real Athletes swim, the rest play games.
78 - Swimmers are like teabags, you don't know how strong they are till you put them in
the water.
79 - You can take the chlorine out of a the girl, but you cant take the girl out of the
chlorine.
80 - If 70% of my body is water, then only 30% of me has to swim.
81 - What lies ahead of us and what lies behind are tiny compared to what lies within us.
82 – Swimming : From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. From the inside
looking out, you can't explain it.
83 - A good swimmer is the one who finished the set, but a great swimmer is the one who
finished it and says : "That was awesome lets do it again !"
84 - Don't swim cause you have to, swim cause you love it.
85 - Practice doesn’t make you perfect, it’s perfect practice that makes you
perfect.
86 - Swimming is the only sport that can save your life.
87 - Real Swimmers give 100% some of the time...the rest of the time, they give more !!!
88 - The swimmer who says it can't be done, is lapped by the swimmer who is doing it.
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