20th-century Swimmer Quotes

Michael Phelps

Johnny Weissmuller

Esther Williams

Dawn Fraser

Lewis Pugh

Judith Young

I knew now that I had to stand up and start speaking about protecting our environment. From that moment on, every swim should have the aim of inspiring people to protect and preserve the world's oceans and all that live in them.

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

I didn't have to act in 'Tarzan, the Ape Man'—just said, 'Me Tarzan, you Jane.'

Johnny Weissmuller

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

I hated the easy assumption that girls had to be slower than boys.

A publisher's view:

It's just called 'The Bible' now. We dropped the word 'Holy' to give it a more mass-market appeal.

When Fernando [Lamas] proposed to me, he said, 'Let me take you away from all this.' And I said, 'Away from all what? I'm a movie star!'

Esther Williams

If you're not mentally tough,
If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
If you don't have the inner arrogance
That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
And not because you can't.