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Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.
I was an athlete when I was growing up.
Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer
Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'
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.
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.
President Can't Swim.
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
Man was made to swim. Swimming is a natural sport, performed in harmony with nature.
Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'
You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.
I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.
I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.
I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.
I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.
There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.
The Worst Gymnast
Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.
Guys named Chad probably only swam when playing water polo.
Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.
I was a gymnast for years.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.
I don't even know how to swim!Swim-- Lea Thompson
I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.
I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
I think swimming's hard because I can't float.
Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.
Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.
You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
If you want to learn how to swim forget the possibility of drowning
Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!
I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
I've always liked swimming, so long as my head's above water.
I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I'm a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little bit of soccer.
I always wanted to be a sprinter.
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
I'm still swimming.
You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.
She knows swimming still She die in water, This is Woman's life
A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.
I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.
But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy ...
A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It has never solved any problems, but it has done no harm, and nothing has ever ruined it for me. Swimming.
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
I ski, I surf, I scuba dive ... any sport that starts with an 's.'
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.
I want to change the sport of swimming. I want people to talk about it, think about it, and look forward to seeing it. I want them to want to jump in and do it. That's my goal." After
The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.
A lot of the Olympic games just boil down to genetics. Michael Phelps is genetically built to swim better than other people if he trains the same way. You might as well have a competition for who's the tallest, and act like it's anyone's game!
I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.
I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps
I love swimming"
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a little while. And then he said, "I love swimming - and you."
I didn't say anything.
"Swimming and you, Ari. Those are the things I love the most.
The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.
After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.
You are an athlete if you are a dancer.
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
She loves swimming," said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college.
Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.
"Don't you Kara?" asked Ellen.
There was no response.
"I didn't start until I was three," said Ellen. "She's got a two year start on me.