#swimmer

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#else #friends #i #introduce #me

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#basic #basis #comes #develop #doing

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#concentrate #i #me #other #preparing

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#break #chest #chin #comfortable #deep

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ↗

— Steven Wright

#drowns #rest #swimmer #synchronised #too

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#because #better #i #i always #mom

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. ↗

— Kirsty Coventry

#coming #defend #greedy #how #hungry

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#arms #body #go #had #i

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. ↗

— Esther Williams

#got #i #loved #more #national

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#because #black #day #express #express yourself