Swimmer Quotes

Michael Phelps

Johnny Weissmuller

Esther Williams

Dawn Fraser

Lewis Pugh

Judith Young

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

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.

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.

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

Johnny Weissmuller

The family is our first culture, and, like all cultures, it wants to make known its norms and mores. It does so through daily life, but it also does so through family stories which underscore, in a way invariably clear to its members, the essentials, like the unspoken and unadmitted family policy on marriage or illness. Or suicide. Or who the family saints and sinners are, or how much anger can be expressed and by whom.

Elizabeth Stone

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

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

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.