It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable...Failure to me became not trying, instead of the outcome. ~Sara Blakely When you choose to be a competitor, you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are. ~Pat Summitt The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
~David Lloyd George
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
~Christopher Reeve
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
~Douglas Malloch
We kick more than soccer players, we yell louder than cheerleaders, we dive farther than baseball players, we move more than dancers, we do more flips than gymnasts, we do more laps than runners, and that's why we're SWIMMERS.
What you get by achieving your goals isn't as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Zig Ziglar
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
~Abigail Van Buren
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
~Steve Prefontaine
If I had to choose where to spend the last day of my life, I'd choose a swim meet because it would go on forever.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
~John Wooden Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
~Arthur Ashe
Records for me don't impress. You make records to be broken; you don't expect to keep them forever.
~Marie Kelleher, age 97
The key to the race was not thinking about it. I just let it rock out. I was third at the turn and I said to myself I wasn't going to lose the race.
~Josh Schneider, 2010 NCAA 50 Free Champion
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Success is tons of discipline.
~ Al Tomsik
Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.
~ Jim Rohn
The object of teaching a child is to enable her to get along without her teacher.
~ Elbert Hubbard Children need models rather than critics.
~Joseph Joubert If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ~Ignacio Estrada If one asks for success and prepares for failure, she will get the situation she has prepared for.
~Florence Scovel Shinn I don't care if my daughter ever wins a race. Swimming isn't about that. It's about being a part of a team, learning how to take instruction and exerting yourself physically and mentally, and then taking pride in that diligent process.
~Mel Stewart, 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist
In order to engage in battle without compromise, you must find a place within yourself where success and failure don't matter. This is not an easy task. It requires resisting the emotional satisfaction of being Number 1 as well as the emotional uncertainty of defeat itself.
~Jim Steen
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
~John J. Plomp
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
~Lady Bird Johnson
All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.
~Magic Johnson
Stop living life for what's around the corner and start enjoying the walk down the street.
~Grant L. Miller
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in meets.
~Edwin Moses A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~John Barrymore
Character is who you are when no one is watching.
~Bob Blanton
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
~Bob Blanton
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
~Desiderius Erasmus Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
~Albert Einstein
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
~ Charles Prestwich Scott
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think it's the everyday mental attitude that makes a great champion, not just getting psyched up for the race.
~Doc Counsilman
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.
~Aunt Kathy
It's not what you wish for, but what you work for.
~Dagny Knutson
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney Harris
Here's what I learned from my swimming career:
1. Be early
2. Take responsibility for the things you've done, wrong or right.
3. Lose well. Win graciously.
4. Work hard and good things will come to you, even if they're not the things you're aiming for at the beginning.
~ B.J. Bedford, 2000 Olympian
There's a mistaken idea out there that if you are successful at something you will enjoy it. I think it's the other way around- if you enjoy it, you will be successful.
~Margaret Hoelzer, 2008 Olympian
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
~Jack Handy
My grandmother once told me, “don’t let failure go to your heart, and don’t let success go to your head.”
~Will Smith Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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