Swimming Quotes

No lines, no lanes, no limits.

Steven Munatones

To have a swimmer’s body, you must swim.

Buck Dawson

The water is my sky, and I swim to fly.

When we're in the water, we're not in this world.

Gertrude Ederle

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Emerson

Swim your own race. Be in competition with no one but yourself.

T]he first time you swim after a long while is … happiness.

Kiran Desai

The best swimmers are the ones who can swim with their mind.

Bob Bowman

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

In swimming, every stroke and every breath counts. It’s the ultimate lesson in persistence.

Into the day as by dream I swim, to the music of nourished meaning.

Dejan Stojanovic

Swimming is a sport of details. The smallest adjustments can make the biggest difference.

Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings.

Michael Phelps

The ocean is a very, very beautiful place. It is God’s gift to us.

Lynne Cox

Life is like swimming; sometimes you hit a wall, turn around, and just keep going.

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

A swimmer’s courage isn’t just about diving into the unknown; it’s about coming up for air, again and again.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Christopher Reeve

I grew convinced that following water, flowing with it, would be a way of getting under the skin of things.

Roger Deakin

I had a strong inclination for the sea; living near the water, I was much in it and about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Swimming is not just a sport; it’s a way to escape, to breathe, to find peace in the chaos of life.

Swimming is the dance of the water and the swimmer. It’s about creating beauty in a space where gravity doesn’t exist.

Swimming is the only sport where you go from point A to point A and still cover a lot of distance.

I swam and followed the rivers, hoping that I'd end up in the ocean; the calm seas. To see some dolphins and the colourful fish.

Mitta Xinindlu

When you swim, you feel your body for what it mostly is – water – and it begins to move with the water around it.

Roger Deakin

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.

Jo Brand

My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth.

Thao Thai

Swimming is a rite of passage, a crossing of boundaries: the line of the shore, the bank of the river, the edge of the pool, the surface itself.

Roger Deakin

But I had a dream that was heavier than my challenges. So I continued with my journey, following the stream of the river. Hoping to reach the ocean; the calm seas.

Mitta Xinindlu

I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Joanne Harris

I start every day with a cold swim no matter the season and then I hop in a hot bath that overlooks my little cove. A small delight to start every day.

Sarah Andrews

When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.

Jay Woodman

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts

Swimming has an educational value – mental, moral and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and the power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Robert Baden-Powell

Now he must sink into the warm sea, lose himself in order to find himself again, swim in that warm moonlight in order to silence what remained of the past, to bring to birth the deep song of his happiness. He undressed, clambered down a few rocks, and entered the sea. It was as warm as a body, another body that ran down his arms and clung to his legs with an ineffable yet omnipresent embrace.

Albert Camus

Then my favorite thing began to happen, the thing I like best about swimming in open water, which is nothing. I don't mean there is nothing to like. I mean there is nothing, and I like it… The ocean has a vast emptiness, an immense open space that feels gaping and vacant even though it is full of water. Swimming in the ocean is like being a speak of dust in a large empty suitcase, or one tiny star in the endless sky. Every thought you have feels unnoticed, the way the sky pays no attention to one star's flickering light, and every word in your brain echoes unremembered in the enormous suitcase of the sea, so you stop thinking at all.

Lemony Snicket