If you came here looking for the best quotes about swimming, you are in the right place! đ
Below is a list of different sayings about dipping, floating, and quotes about swimming that will surely make you want to take a dive in cold waters.
Side note: If you have some additional quotes about swimming, don’t hesitate to mention them down below and I’d be happy to add them to this list! đ
75+ Revealing Quotes About Swimming
1. “I Only Fear Not Trying.” – Proverb
2. “Swim hard. Dream big.” – Unknown
3. “Home is where the pool is.” – Proverb
4. “Jump in and lose yourself.” – Unknown
5. “Goals should never be easy.” – Proverb
6. “In the water, your only enemy is the clock.” – Unknown
7. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Proverb
8. “If you have a lane, you have a chance.” – Unknown
9. “The water doesn’t know how old you are.” – Dara Torres
10. “Good things come to those who swim.” – Proverb
11. “Seven days of no swimming makes one weak.” – Unknown
12. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” – Proverb
13. “The body does what the mind prefers.” – Lenny Krayzelburg
14. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – Proverb
15. “Sometimes you win sometimes you learn.” – Unknown
16. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
17. “When your body gets tired swim with your heart.” – Unknown
18. “Be great. You never know who you’re inspiring.” – Proverb
19. “You’re only one swim away from a good mood.” – Unknown
20. “Nothing else matters when you are in the water.” – Naomiooms
21. “Swimming is simply moving meditation.” – Cesar Nikko Caharian
22. “Donât wait for your ship to come in â swim out to it!” – Cathy Hopkins
23. “Every champion was once a contender who never gave up.” – Unknown
24. “You practice like a champion all season become one tonight.” – Unknown
25. “I love the feeling of being in water. I could swim all day long.” – Unknown
26. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Unknown
28. “No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God and can swim.” – Proverb
29. “Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.” – Proverb
30. “If it doesn’t challenge you, It doesn’t change you. Swim harder.” – Proverb
31. “Every day is a new beginning. Take a breath and start again.” – Proverb
32. “No one learns to swim in the shallow end of the pool.” – Michelle A. Homme
33. “Don’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.” – Proverb
34. “We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes.” – Proverb
35. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. “Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.” – Amit Ray
37. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Matt Biondi
38. “Every race is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.” – Proverb
39. “The performance you want on race day is built meter by meter in practice.” – Proverb
40. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” – Woodrow Wilson
41. “A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.” – Missy Franklin
42. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin
43. “The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is a disappointment.” – Proverb
44. “When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.” – Unknown
45. “At the start of each day, I remind myself, my toughest opponent is in the mirror.” – Ryan Lochte
46. “Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett
47. “If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it. Keep swimming.” – Unknown
48. “You are tougher than you think. Faster than you know. Better than you will ever realize.” – Unknown
49. “Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream!” – W. C. Fields
50. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton
51. “Swim like there’s tomorrow, like today never happened, and like yesterday wasn’t good enough.” – Proverb
52. “Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim.” – Unknown
53. “Success is different for everyone. Keep a proper perspective and do your personal best.” – Unknown
54. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people arenât used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs
54. “You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.” – Norman Juster
56. “Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.” – Michael Phelps
57. “The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.” – Unknown
58. “Swimming: From the outside looking in, you canât understand it. From the inside looking out, you canât explain it!” – Unknown
59. “Promise me youâll always remember: Youâre braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
60. “I wouldnât say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.” – Michael Phelps
61. “The water is your friendâŠ..you donât have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.” – Alexandr Popov
62. “Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. Itâs the reason why I was able to swim so well.” – Libby Lenton
63. “Having the right mindset on race day isn’t an accident. It’s a reflection of how you approach training in the weeks and months leading up to competition.” – Unknown
64. “Enjoy swimming for swimmingâs sake. We have to spend far too much time in the water to not enjoy the process challenging yourself of moving through the water.” – Unknown
65. “If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, Iâd still swim. And Iâd despise the one who gave up.” – Abraham Maslow
66. “Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement â and we will make the goal.” – Robert Collier
67. “Poverty is uncomfortable, but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.” – James Garfield
68. “Itâs easy to forget when youâre an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, theyâre still nervous.” – Leisl JonesÂ
69. “In training, everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because thereâs very little that separates us physically at the elite level.” – Elka Graham
70. “Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But the effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ainât got nothing to do with nobody else.” – Ray Lewis
71. “Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.” – Kieren Perkins
72. “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
73. “Believe in yourself, not only in swimming but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If youâre not enjoying it, donât do it. Lifeâs too short.” – Debbie Meyer
74. “Feel our hearts pounding muscles burning lungs screaming. Feel our love and hate for our opponent. Feel the insane drive to keep pushing. To get to the wall. To win. I am a swimmer. I am a champion.” – Proverb
75. “Itâs been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I donât see it. We donât get timeouts, in the middle of a race we canât stop and catch our breath, we canât roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we canât ask for a substitution.” – Dusty Hicks