"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

– Thomas Jefferson

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream."

– W. C. Fields

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

– Alan Watts

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."

– Frida Kahlo

"If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you."

– Bruce Lee

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."

– Woodrow T. Wilson

"We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes."

– Unknown Author

"Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it."

– Unknown Author

"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 A. Garfield

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

– Lyndon B. Johnson

"It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim."

- Unknown Author

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

- Abraham Maslow

"It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution."

- Dusty Hicks

"We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes."

- Unknown Author

"Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety."

- George Bernard Shaw

"H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession."

- Unknown Author

"I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears."

- Heidi Klum

"Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it."

- Unknown Author

"When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world."

- Unknown Author

"When left unattended, a swimmer will gravitate to the worst technique possible."

- Law of Competitive Gravity