Quote for the Week of May 12, 2008
“The one thing worse than not being able to see is having no vision.”
~Helen Keller (1880-1968) author, activist & lecturer
Quote for the Week of May 5, 2008
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
~Chinese Proverb
Quote for the Week of April 28, 2008
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”
~Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) author, educator, clergyman
Quote for the Week of April 21, 2008
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
~Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lawyer, philosopher, scientist
Quote for the Week of April 14, 2008
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~Howard Thurman (1900-1981) author, theologian, civil rights leader
Quote for the Week of April 7, 2008
"[He] was a star who did not want to be a star, a celebrity in search of privacy and the right to do his job without any public interference."
~David Halberstam, author of The Making of a Coach, Sports Illustrated (about Bill Belichick)
Quote for the Week of March 31, 2008
"Seek Excellence, not perfection.
Make Excellence, not perfection, part of your daily routine."
~Author Lost
Quote for the Week of March 24, 2008
"Sloppiness is a disease. Nobody ever built a great organization just worrying about the big things. It's the little things that give you the edge. The important thing is to find people who are committed to details and to standards of excellence."
~Coach Joe Paterno
Quote for the Week of March 17, 2008
"Just keep swimming."
~Dory
Quote for the Week of March 10, 2008
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
~Groucho Marx
Quote for the Week of March 3, 2008
"There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.
~Unknown
Quote for the Week of February 25, 2008
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss
Quote for the Week of February 18, 2008
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
~Sam Keen
Quote for the Week of February 11, 2008
"I dream of a better tomorrow... where chickens can cross roads and not have their motives questioned.
~Unknown
Quote for the Week of February 4, 2008
"I was standing in the park wondering why frisbees got bigger as they get closer. Then it hit me."
~Unknown
Quote for the Week of January 28, 2008
"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs."
~Vance Havner
Quote for the Week of January 21, 2008
"We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on."
~Amy Marie Walz
Quote for the Week of January 14, 2008
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
~Winston Churchill
Quote for the Week of January 7, 2008
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
~Walter Gagehot
Quote for the Week of December 31, 2007
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of December 24, 2007
“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.”
~John Cleese (English comic Actor (Monty Python), b.1939)
Merry Christmas, Dynoswimmers!
Quote for the Week of December 17, 2007
"I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life."
~Harpo Marx
Quote for the Week of December 10, 2007
"Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it."
~Author Unknown
Quote for the Week of December 3, 2007
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
~Anne Frank
Quote for the Week of November 26, 2007
"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who cannot repay you."
~Ruth Smeltzer
Quote for the Week of November 19, 2007
"Shovel while the piles are small."
~Author Unknown
Quote for the Week of November 12, 2007
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
~Indira Gandhi
Quote for the Week of November 5, 2007
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
~Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), Orator
Quote for the Week of October 29, 2007
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
~Dr. Michael McGriffy
Quote for the Week of October 22, 2007
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
~Josh Billings
Quote for the Week of October 15, 2007
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
~William Arthur Ward
Quote for the Week of October 8, 2007
"Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that; it lights the whole sky."
~Hafiz,Sufi poet of Persia, 1320-1389
Quote for the Week of October 1, 2007
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."
~Sarah Ban Breathnach
Quote for the Week of September 24, 2007
"A loving person lives in a loving world.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Everyone you meet is your mirror."
~Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995), writer
Quote for the Week of September 17, 2007
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
~Voltaire
Quote for the Week of September 10, 2007
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for the Week of September 3, 2007
"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days."
~Stephen Jay Gould
Quote for the Week of August 27, 2007
"I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love."
~Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), writer
Quote for the Week of August 20, 2007
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
~Leo Buscaglia
Quote for the Week of August 13, 2007
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
~Thich Nhat Han, Vietnamese Buddhist monk
Quote for the Week of August 6, 2007
"The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it."
~Alex Haley
Quote for the Week of July 30, 2007
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of July 23, 2007
"Most people are too busy living life to ever put life in their living..."
~Doug Firebaugh
Quote for the Week of July 16, 1007
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
~Dawna Markova
Quote for the Week of July 9, 2007
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
~Thomas Carlyle
Quote for the Week of July 2, 2007
"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
~Amelia Earhart
Quote for the Week of June 25, 2007
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
~Mary Lou Cook
Quote for the Week of June 18, 2007
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
~Albert Einstein
Quote for the Week of June 11, 2007
"I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else, but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving."
~Beverly Sills
Quote for the Week of June 4, 2007
"Be thankful for the things that you don't get, that you don't want."
~Bob Dylan
Quote for the Week of May 28, 2007
"You are not boring or vain or simple or mean. You're colorful, complex, and have a beauty that's all your own. And for the record, you are infinitely nicer than they give you credit for."
~Author and recipient unknown
Quote for the Week of May 21, 2007
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
~George Washington
Quote of the Week for May 14, 2007
"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." ~Tenneva Jordan
Happy Mother's Day to our Moms' of Dynoswimmers and our Dynoswimmer Moms!
Quote for the Week of May , 2007
"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."
~James A. Michener
Quote for the Week of April 30, 2007
"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for the Week of April 23, 2007
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
~Found inside a fortune cookie
Quote for the Week of April 16, 2007
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
~Orison Swett Marden
Quote for the Week of April 9, 2007
"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.”
~Charles M. Crowe
Quote for the Week of April 2, 2007
"I'm sore everywhere. I'm achy, I've got blisters and I do have a lot of tendinitis in my ankle. Other than that, I feel great." ~Ray Zahab
Quote for the Week of March 26, 2007
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
~Abraham Lincoln
Quote for the Week of March 19, 2007
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
~Michael Jordan
Quote for the Week of March 12, 2007
"I'm going to swim that river or die trying. But dying is not my intention." ~Martin Strel
Quote for the Week of March 5, 2007
"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." ~Rosalyn Carter
Quote for the Week of February 26, 2007
"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing." ~George Sheehan
Quote for the Week of February 19, 2007
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." ~Voltaire
Quote for the Week of February 12, 2006
"I could use a little love and affection, but I sure as heck won't get any from Pat."
~An unidentified Dynoswimmer
Quote for the Week of February 5, 2007
"The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body."
~George Sheehan
Quote for the Week of January 29, 2007
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
~Alexander Graham Bell
Quote for the Week of January 22, 2007
"These are the 'Good Old Days.'"
~Sign hanging inside Billy's Tap Room and Pub located in Pt. Jefferson, L.I., New York
Quote for the Week of January 15, 2007
“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast with a scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.” ~Martin Luther King jr.
Quote for the Week of January 8, 2007
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." ~Sir Francis Bacon
Quote for the Week of January 1, 2007
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year." ~John Foster Dulles
Quote for the Week of December 25, 2006
“Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.”
~Oren Arnold
Quote for the Week of December 18, 2006
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words.”
~Harlan Miller
Quote for the Week of December 11, 2006
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Quote of the Week for December 4, 2006
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." ~Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of November 27, 2006
"Energy and persistence conquer all things." ~Benjamin Franklin
Quote for the Week of November 20, 2006
"You can't cure a 48 hour hangover with a 24 hour swim." ~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of November 13, 2006
"I may look low-key or (be) soft-spoken but that does not mean that I lack leadership or commitment." ~Incoming United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
Quote for the Week of November 6, 2006
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." ~George Bernard Shaw
Quote for the Week of October 30, 2006
"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." ~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of October 23, 2006
"In order to swim fast, you need to swim fast." ~A Wise Man
Quote for the Week of October 16, 2006
"Life breaks everyone and, afterward, many are strong at the broken places." ~Earnest Hemingway
Quote for the Week of October 9, 2006
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." ~Napoleon Hill
Quote for the Week of October 2, 2006
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." ~Harriet Tubman
Quote for the Week of September 25, 2006
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."~Robert Fritz
Quote for the Week of September 18, 2006
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~Alan Kay
Quote for the Week of September 11, 2006
"You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy." ~Colin Powell
Quote for the Week of September 4, 2006
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
~Vincent van Gogh
Quote for the Week of August 28, 2006
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."
~Abraham Lincoln
Quote for the Week of August 21, 2006
"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed."
~Mwai Kibaki
Quote for the Week of August 14, 2006
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
~Dwight David Eisenhower (American 34th President (1953-61) who lived from 1890 to 1969.)
Quote for the Week of August 7, 2006
"We progress because we are willing to change." ~Thomas Watson
Quote for the Week of July 31, 2006
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan
Quote for the Week of July 24, 2006
“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion - this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”
~Richard Bach
Quote for the Week of July 17, 2006
The following is taken from the 2006 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
"It's great to be here, but it doesn't feel that good to get second by two-one-hundredths [of a second]. But then again it's all put in perspective because I'm here and I'm racing."
~Indiana's Kevin Swander on his 100 Breaststroke
Quote for the Week of July 10, 2006
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Quote for the Week of July 3, 2006
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." ~Thomas Macaulay
Quote for the Week of June 26, 2006
"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins have always believed that they were far more intelligent than man ... for precisely the same reason." ~Douglas Adams
Quote for the Week of June 19, 2006
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a 10,000-foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." ~Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) in "Caddyshack"
Quote for the Week of June 12, 2006
"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Quote for the Week of June 5, 2006
"What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have." ~Henry Ward Beecher
Quote for the Week of May 29, 2006 - Memorial Day
"Saddam would not allow us here; he would slay whoever came here. It's freedom now!" ~Salah Maadi Khafaji, an Iraqi swimming in a part of the Tigris that had been off limits to ordinary Iraqis, Los Angeles Times, 6/17/03
Quote for the Week of May 22, 2006
“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.” ~Rensis Likert
Quote for the Week of May 15, 2006
"We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are. If I am an unchanging stability seeker who just wants to maintain the status quo most change is a threat. If we're constantly seeking new challenges and opportunities to grow, most changes are an opportunity." ~Jim Clemmer
Quote for the Week of May 8, 2006
"Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want." ~Anna Lappe, O Magazine June 2003
Quote for the Week of May 1, 2006
"Develop slowly, steadily, and persistently in all ways. Never give up. Breakthroughs are made by those who keep going when others let up." ~Author Unidentified
Quote for the Week of April 24, 2006
"I feel more like I am now than I was before I dived in." ~Graffiti on the wall of the Guiness Brewery Pool, Dublin, Ireland
Quote for the Week of April 17, 2006
"When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world." ~Author unidentified
Quote for the Week of April 10, 2006
"By its very nature sport is about participation. It is about inclusion and citizenship. Sport brings individuals and communities together, highlighting commonalities and bridging cultural or ethnic divides.”
Quote for the Week of April 3, 2006
"Support your teammates. Without their help and competition, you could never reach your own best level." ~Author Unidentified
Quote for the Week of March 27, 2006
I set my own goal and hit out for it. ~Johnny Weissmuller
Quote for the Week of March 20, 2006
"In self-discipline one makes a 'disciple' of oneself. One is one's own teacher, trainer, coach, and 'disciplinarian'. It is an odd sort of relationship, paradoxical in its own way, and many of us don't handle it very well." ~William J. Bennett
Quote for the Week of March 13, 2006
"It is possible to practice anything. You can practice perfection, or you can practice sloppiness. The way you practice is the way you compete." ~Author Unidentified
Quote for the Week of March 7, 2006
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~Mark Twain
Quote for the Week of February 27, 2006
"You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean." ~Mitch Albom
Quote for the Week of February 20, 2006
"A career in swimming is what matters, not one race, nor one meet, nor one season. Consistency is what gets the job done." ~Author Unidentified
Quote for the Week of February 13, 2006
"I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet." ~Debbie Meyer
Quote for the Week of February 6, 2006
"If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?" ~Steven Wright
Quote for the Week of January 30, 2006
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." ~Walter Bagehot
Quote for the Week of January 23, 2006
"The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you'd still be doing it. You've got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning." ~Warren Buffett
Quote for the Week of January 16, 2006
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." ~Buddha
Quote for the Week of January 9, 2006
"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote for the Week of January 2, 2006
"Integrity is what you would do if you were never to be found out."
~Given in a speech (widely referred to as the "We are Brothers, Boys" speech) by the guest of honor, La Salle Military Academy's oldest living alumnus, Class of 1912, at the La Salle Military Academy Alumni Day Parade, to the corps of cadets, April 1988.
Merry Christmas, Dynoswimmers!
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more." ~Dr. Seuss
Quote for the Week of December 19, 2005
"Sure, you can say swimming is a selfish sport. You're the one who goes into the pool and makes your own times and wins medals, minus the relays. But without a team, without those special people in your life to push you harder then you've ever swam, in practice and in races, without them to help you through the hard times, without them to give you a reason to keep showing up to practice, then you wouldn't be out there anyways. I don't think there is a single swimmer out there that wants to swim only by themselves, that they want to do all their sets, their hundreds of laps a day alone. Without a team to help me through all my hard times, not only would I not be swimming, I probably wouldn't be in school. Never, ever, underestimate the power of a team." ~Unidentified UCSC Swimmer
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Quote for the Week of December 12, 2005
"I may be smelly and I may be old,
Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools,
But where my fish float by I bless their swimming,
And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."
~Poem by Stevie Smith
Quote for the Week of December 5, 2005
"Don't think, just do." ~Horace
Quote for the Week of November 28, 2005
"As the skipper used to say, 'Where's that effing dog?', and you'd take a look and you'd see it swimming away behind like." ~David Walker
Quote for the Week of November 21, 2005
"Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short." ~Debbie Meyer
Quote for the Week of November 14, 2005
"Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly." ~Ian Thorpe
Quote for the Week of November 6, 2005
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." ~Christopher Morley
Quote for the Week of October 31, 2005
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." ~Michelangelo Buonarroti
Quote for the Week of October 24, 2005
"Swimming was a big deal for us. It was sort of a bonding thing for my dad and I." ~Ronald Reagan jr.
Quote for the Week of October 17, 2005
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." ~Woodrow Wilson
Quote for the Week of October 10, 2005
"Each person has his own safe place: running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources." ~Barbara Gordon
Quote for the Week of October 3, 2005
"There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends." ~Arthur C Clarke
Quote for the Week of September 26, 2005
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." ~Plato
Quote for the Week of September 19, 2005
"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal." ~Robert Collier
Quote for the Week of September 12, 2005
"Always remember, whatever the goal--keep your eye on it." ~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of September 5, 2005
"I just refused to give up, to give up the dream. I was in excruciating pain, my arm was numb and they said it would be six months, if ever, for me to be back in the water. I thought my career was over, I was shattered but I never lost hope. I've always believed if you want to do something badly enough you will do it. Some told me that if you visualized healing an injury it would heal faster and that's what I did."
~2004 Australian Olympic diving team qualifier Lynda Dackiw, 4 months before the Athens Olympics.
Quote for the Week of August 29, 2005
"Susie had no talent whatsoever. She's a little person who couldn't even make a final at a state meet - coming and showing the world that on sheer guts and determination you can do anything you want!"
~Susie Maroney's coach Dick Caine, after her 200 kilometer marathon swim from Mexico to Cuba.
Quote for the week of August 22, 2005
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." ~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of August 15, 2005
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." ~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of August 8, 2005
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." ~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of August 1, 2005
"For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing I could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in." - Ian Thorpe [AUS]
Quote for the week of July 25, 2005
"Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals." ~Kieren Perkins
Quote for the week of July 18, 2005
"Swimming will tear you up inside so be ready, be ready to hate it, because at certain points in your career, you will. 'I've always loved swimming' will never come out of the mouth of a true swimmer. You think you have what it takes, reconsider! Do you want to know what makes a real swimmer? It's that stubborn person who knows that most everyday will lead to hell just to prove it can be done - to go through it because someone said it couldn't be done. True swimmers dream to be the best, even when they know in their heart of hearts, that the best is reserved for a select few. True swimmers know that swimming isn't always a sport of love, but the real swimmers, the truly great swimmers, do it anyway. They do it in spite of the pain and agony. They know it's there and they've accepted it. They realize that the pain won't go away and the sport never gets easier, but they keep going. They know that the only way to make it all worth while is to strive to reach their goals and when they've achieved one goal, the stakes just got higher on another. But those swimmers will stop at nothing to achieve; that is what makes for a real swimmer." ~Author Unidentified
Quote for the week of July 11, 2005
"Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am a firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself." ~Scott Goldblatt
Reading My Mind
I read this quote today, "I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing." ~Pieter van den Hoogenband [NED] (after winning a gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000)