Quote for the Week of March 1, 2010
"Don't be afraid to be amazing."
~Andy Offutt Irwin
Quote for the Week of February 22, 2010
"Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear."
~Monroe Forester
Quote for the Week of February 15, 2010
"Don't waste 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 and ages that will follow it."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for the Week of February 8, 2010
"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
~Václav Havel
Quote for the Week of February 1, 2010
"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."
~Wendell Phillips (1811-1884); abolitionist, orator
Quote for the Week of January 25, 2010
"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it...Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
~James Buckham
Quote for the Week of January 18, 2010
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."
~Ben Stein
Quote for the Week of January 11, 2010
"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
~Barbara Hall (Excerpt from A Summons to New Orleans, 2000)
Quote for the Week of January 4, 2010
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
~Robert A. Heinlein
Quote for the Week of December 28, 2009
"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."
~Mary Dunbar
Quote for the Week of December 21, 2009
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~Hamilton Wright Mabie, (1846-1916); essayist, editor
Merry Christmas!
Quote for the Week of December 14, 2009
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
~M. Scott Peck
Quote for the Week of December 7, 2009
"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."
~Lois Wyse
Quote for the Week of November 30, 2009
"Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep."
~Bob Marley
Quote for the Week of November 23, 2009
"Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for the Week of November 16, 2009
"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."
~George Burton Adams
Quote for the Week of November 9, 2009
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."
~Ivy Baker Priest (1905-1975); US political figure
Quote for the Week of November 2, 2009
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
~Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), historian, essayist, satirist
Quote for the Week of October 26, 2009
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
~U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
Quote for the Week of October 19, 2009
"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
~Henry Ward Beecher
Quote for the Week of October 12, 2009
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."
~Charles Dickens
Quote for the Week of October 5, 2009
"You just keep swimming."
~A triumphant Elizabeth Fry after becoming the first woman to circumnavigate Manhattan island against the current - and in record time.
Quote for the Week of September 28, 2009
"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."
~Pat Riley (b. 1945); former NBA player and coach
Quote for the Week of September 21, 2009
"In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance."
~Bachrach, great Chicago coach of the 20's
Quote for the Week of September 14, 2009
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
~Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay]
Quote for the Week of September 7, 2009
"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 (1901-1986)
Quote for the Week of August 31, 2009
"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."
~Jim Stovall
Quote for the Week of August 24, 2009
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
~Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973); poet
Quote for the Week of August 17, 2009
"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."
~Unknown
Quote for the Week of August 10, 2009
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
~Helen Keller (1880-1968); author, lecturer, activist
Quote for the Week of August 3, 2009
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."
~Anna Quindlen
Quote for the Week of July 27, 2009
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Author Unidentified
Quote for the Week of July 20, 2009
"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
~Mildred McAfee (1900-1994); academic, served as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy.
Quote for the Week of July 13, 2009
"Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them."
~Jim Rohn
Quote for the Week of July 6, 2009
"Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination."
~George Marshall (1880-1959)
Quote for the Week of June 29, 2009
"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."
~Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
Quote for the Week of June 22, 2009
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
~Bill Bradley (b. 1943); American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar,former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
Quote for the Week of June 15, 2009
"The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move."
~Brian Tracy
Quote for the Week of June 8, 2009
"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
~Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web""
Quote for the Week of June 1, 2009
"Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement."
~Paul Tsongas
Quote for the Week of May 25, 2009
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
~Benjamin Disraeli
Support the goals of your teammates!
Quote for the Week of May 18, 2009
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
~Barbara Kingsolver
Quote for the Week of May 11, 2009
"To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."
~Bernard Edmonds
Quote for the Week of May 4, 2009
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
~Joshua J. Marine
Quote for the Week of April 27, 2009
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
~Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924), author, publisher
Quote for the Week of April 20, 2009
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
~W. Clement Stone (1902-2002); author, businessman
Quote for the Week of April 13, 2009
"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
~Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, prime minister, author, Nobel Prize winner
Quote for the Week of April 6, 2009
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919); poet, writer
Quote for the Week of March 30, 2009
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
~Nora Roberts
Quote for the Week of March 23, 2009
"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 (1820-1913)
Quote for the Week of March 16, 2009
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
~Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Roman Catholic saint
Quote for the Week of March 9, 2009
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
~Henry C. Link
Quote for the Week of March 2, 2009
I taped my mantra to the wall: 'There will be a day when you can no longer do this. Today is not that day.'"
~Laura Kloepper
Quote for the Week of February 23, 2009
Thank-you Tiger Swimming (Occidental College, Los Angeles)!
Quote for the Week of February 16, 2009
"You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole wide world. There never has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over."
~Lou Austin
Quote for the Week of February 9, 2009
"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
~Zig Ziglar
Quote for the Week of February 2, 2009
"Love yourself -- accept yourself -- forgive yourself -- and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things."
~Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia (1924-1998); professor, author
Quote for the Week of January 26, 2009
"Sometimes it is very difficult to keep momentum if it is you that you are following."
~From Andrew Lloyd Webber's, "Evita"
Quote for the Week of January 19, 2009
Definition of Insanity: "To do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome."
~Stephen Widmer
Quote for the Week of January 12, 2009
"It's easy to put in the extra effort, but it is easier not to."
~The Mom of one of Australia's great swimmers, Samantha Riley, former world record holder in the 100 breaststroke
Quote for the Week of January 5, 2009
"The pain of discipline is nowhere near as big as the pain of disappointment."
~Stephan Widmer
Quote for the Week of December 29, 2008
"Self-discipline is what happens when nobody is watching."
~Stephan Widmer
Quote for the Week of December 22, 2008
"Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable."
~Zig Zigla
Quote for the Week of December 15, 2008
"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."
~Wanda Hope Carter
Quote for the Week of December 8, 2008
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
~Jeffrey Gitomer
Quote for the Week of December 1, 2008
"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
~Flavia Weedn; author, artist
Quote for the Week of November 24, 2008
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Anais Nin (1903-1977), author, diarist
Quote for the Week of November 17, 2008
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); philosopher, writer, naturalist
Quote for the Week of November 10, 2008
It Couldn't Be Done
~By Edgar Albert Guest
Somebody said that it couldn't be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it!
Quote for the Week of November 3, 2008
"Every person in this life has something to teach me -- and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening."
~Catherine Doucette; author
Quote for the Week of October 27, 2008
"My father Mark always gives me three pieces of advice," Weber-Gale said after breaking the record. "Trust in your coach, trust in your stroke and swim your own race."
Read more at Swimming World
Quote for the Week of October 20, 2008
"Swimming is not a sport. It's a way to keep from drowning."
~George Carlin, comedian
Quote for the Week of October 13, 2008
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
~Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), novelist
Quote for the Week of October 6, 2008
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
~Melodie Beattie
Quote for the Week of September 29, 2008
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt."
~Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), educator, writer, theologian
Quote for the Week of September 22, 2008
"To swim well is an asset for life."
~Forbes Carlisle
Quote for the Week of September 15, 2008
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
~Anne Lamott (b. 1954), author, political activist
Quote for the Week of September 8, 2008
"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is."
~Mary Anne Radmacher, author
Quote for the Week of September 1, 2008
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
~Charles R. Swindoll (b.1934), writer, clergyman
Quote for the Week of August 25, 2008
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find that you have crossed the mountain."
~Unknown Author
Quote for the Week of August 18, 2008
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."
~Unknown Author
Quote for the Week of August 11, 2008
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
~Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president
Quote for the Week of August 4, 2008
"Please remember that it takes more than crossing the finish line first to make a champion. A champion is more than a winner. A champion is someone who respects the rules, rejects doping, and competes in the spirit of fair play. A champion is someone who surpasses personal limits. This means all of you can be champions, regardless of your final ranking."
~Jacques Rogge (2002 Olympic Committee president in a speech at the Winter Olympics that year)
Quote for the Week of July 28, 2008
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
~E. E. Comings (1894-1962), poet, playwright, painter, essayist
Quote for the Week of July 21, 2008
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. First Lady, diplomat, human rights activist
Quote for the Week of July 14, 2008
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."
~William James (1842-1910), psychologist, philosopher, author
Quote for the Week of July 7, 2008
"Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
~Plato
Quote for the Week of June 30, 2008
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910), humorist, essayist, novelist
Quote for the Week of June 23, 2008
"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination."
~William Longgood
Quote for the Week of June 16, 2008
"Chlorine is my cologne."
~Anonymous
Quote for the Week of June 9, 2008
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."
~Albert Ellis
Quote for the Week of June 2, 2008
"...man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
~Douglas Adams
Quote for the Week of May 26, 2008
"A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation."
~Misty Hyman - Olympic gold medalist in 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Games
Quote for the Week of May 19, 2008
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
~Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), theologian, philosopher, physician
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)