Swimming quotes suck. I hate to say it so bluntly, but it’s true. How do I know this? Well, I went looking for some motivational quotes to put in this post. Why? Because I have made the decision to add lap swimming into my PT/training program. I need to work on my aerobic fitness – and I am not anywhere close to being able to put down a long ride on this hip. So, my PT and I agree that swimming would be a good option for cardio. (I am going to try this program and have added swimming to my training plan.)
Problem is, I am not that great a swimmer in terms of lap swimming and therefore don’t enjoy it much. Thus the search for motivation and the subsequent realization that there aren’t a lot of sexy swimming quotes out there. Case in point – below are some of the “motivational” quotes I found about swimming:
The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov
I wouldn’t 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
People ask me ‘what was going through your mind in the race?’ and I don’t know. I try and …let my body do what it knows. ~Ian Thorpe
In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there’s very little that separates us physically at the elite level. ~Elka Graham
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. ~Mark Twain
Frankly, these are all rather, well, blah – for lack of a better word. Nothing in there inspires me to happily swap my cycling shoes for my swimsuit. On the other hand, check out the results of a quick search for quotes about cycling (or by cyclists):
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn’t racing. Life is the metaphor for the race. ~Donald Antrim
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~Ann Strong, Minneapolis Tribune, 1895
There was a second supremely sweet moment of victory. As I made my way through the finish area, I passed the Cofidis team. Assorted members of the organization stood around, the men who I felt had left me for dead in a hospital room. “That was for you,” I said as I moved past them. ~Lance Armstrong
Cycle tracks abound in Utopia. ~H.G. Wells
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore. ~Eddy Merckx
I mean, come on. There is just no comparison here.
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