170+ Motivational Swimming Quotes 

Swimming is an amazing hobby and the best way to stay in shape. Whether you dive into the ocean or into a pool, the most important factor of swimming is that you enjoy and have fun. Read these motivational swimming quotes to dive into the water this summer. This collection of summer swimming quotes will motivate you and have you ready to dive into the water.

• “Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination.” —Michael Phelps

• “Swimming is simply moving meditation.” — Cesar Nikko Caharian

• “The water is your friend…..you don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.” — Alexandr Popov

• “The best swimmers are the ones that almost don’t try the most… It’s just about relaxing and enjoying it.” — Cate Campbell

• “You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I’m doing and how I want to swim my races.” — Katie Ledecky

• “I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.” — Amanda Beard

• “In training, everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental but in the races, it’s 90% mental because there’s very little that separates us physically at the elite level.” — Elka Graham 

• “I’ve swum for my country, I’ve swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.” — Janet Evans

• “Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.” — Ian Thorpe

• “Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don’t hurt anyone on the way up.” — Dawn Fraser

• “Without goals, training has no direction.” — Natalie Coughlin

• “There are days when I don’t feel motivated and I don’t want to get up to go to practice. I’m a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.” — Dara Torres

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. — Warren Buffett

• This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is. — Dennis Rodman

• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. — Woodrow Wilson

• Swimming gives me immense satisfaction. — Lara Dutta

• I’m just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. — Don Johnson

• As long as I’m enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming. — Cate Campbell

• Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I’m swimming, sometimes I’m not sure which one it is.— Demetri Martin

• Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.— Robert Baden-Powell

• 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

• Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.  — Darell Hammond

• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.  — F. Scott Fitzgerald

• I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming. — Geeta Phogat

Just Keep Swimming Quotes

Today, swimming could be the best activity in the world. It will help you to maintain a healthy heart, healthy weight, and lungs. So read these just keep swimming quotes to get some motivation you need to start your training.

• We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing. — William Morris
• 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
• I’m a qualified swimming instructor. — Joe Lycett
• I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming. — Jimmy Carter
• A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun. — Missy Franklin
• Swimming is my passion and something that I love. — Natalie du Toit
• Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it. — Stan Musial
• I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. — Boris Johnson
• Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool. — Eric Shanteau
• Swimming isn’t everything, winning is. — Mark Spitz
• When you retire, you don’t get fat and old. C’mon: it’s like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that’s when they die. You gotta keep moving. — Reggie Miller
• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.  — Nastassja Kinski
• I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it’s so relaxing. It’s also a great form of active recovery. It’s perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit. — Eugenie Bouchard
• Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. Karen Salmansohn
• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.— Natalie Coughlin
• I don’t know what it’s like to have a typical father figure. He’s not the dad who’s going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he’s such a motivational person. —  Tiffany Trum
• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. — Liv Ullmann
• I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim. — Song Hye-kyo
• When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I’m at the Olympics with him, and it’s like: ‘Woah.’ — Katie Ledecky
• I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools. —  Al Pacino
• I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. — Tyler Perry
• On my days off, I like to be outdoors – on my bike or walking the dog or swimming – so it’s important anyone I date is also into fitness. —  Mollie King
• Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’ —  Paul McCartney
• I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise. — Marv Levy

Adult Swim Quotes

Adult swim quotes are here to make you a competitive swimmer who trains every day. Explore and share these adult swim quotes with your friends and family.

• When you prepare for something, it’s like jumping into cold water, but you’re prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don’t swim, you drown. —  Rza
• I’m sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool. — Stromae
• I’m pretty over swimming, guys. — Caeleb Dressel
• Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It’s the approval of your peers. — Peter Finch
• It’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening. — Michael Phelps
• When I decided to keep swimming I made the decision to just do it based off enjoying it and making lots of friends out of it. — Emma McKeon
• I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water – fishermen, boatmen – and by a way of life that is dominated by water. — Berlie Doherty
• I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming. — Greg Davies
• Open-water swimming scares the hell out of me. — Jesse Spencer
• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one. — Joan Didion
• I started swimming. I frolic like Free Willy. — John Pinette
• “No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch”— Anonymous 
• “Just because it isn’t happening at this moment, doesn’t mean it never will.”— Anonymous
• “Feel your way through the water. Don’t fight it.” — Mark Young
• “Work hard in silence.  Let your success make the noise.” — Anonymous 
• “The only difference between try and and triumph is a little umph.”— Anonymous 
• “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”— Pat Riley
• “I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.”— Michael Phelps
• “Jump in and lose yourself.” — Anonymous 
• “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.”— Kieren Perkins
• “If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water.  On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you. “— Bruce Lee
• “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
• “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
• “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
• “Willing is not enough. We must do.” – Bruce Lee.
• “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
• “You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them.”
• “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

Swimming Quotes Funny

Swimming is a very enjoyable sport but being a good swimmer needs a lot of endurance and effort. There are many funny swimming quotes that can make this enjoyable sport more refreshing.

• “Excellence eliminates doubt.” — Anne Ottenbrite
• “The things you learn from sports – setting goals, being part of a team, confidence – that’s invaluable. It’s not about trophies and ribbons. It’s about being on time for practice, accepting challenges.” — Summer Sanders

• “Without goals, training has no direction.” — Natalie Coughlin
• “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” — Matt Biondi
• “While we are here we should set goals and achieve them, make the best of things, make others feel good about themselves, and be happy with what we are and what we are doing.” — Janet Evans
• “I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I’m not feeling good – work on technique or something like that.”— Katie Ledecky
• “I am a firm believer that you don’t achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand.”  — Greg Louganis
• “The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There’s no time to do anything else.” — Chad le Clos
• “Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.” —  Aaron Peirsol
• “You don’t want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.” — Stephanie Rice
• “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
• “Win if you can, lose if you must, but never quit.”
• “What to do with a mistake: Recognize it. Learn from it. Forget about it.”
• “It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get back up.”
• “Never give up! Failure and rejection are the first steps to succeeding.”
• “A champion is someone who gets up when they shouldn’t.”
• “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
• “Great things never come from comfort zones.”— Penny Oleksiak
• “I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.” — Michael Phelps
• “It’s not who’s put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who’s put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.”— Nathan Adrian

Related Topic: Smile Quotes, Karma Quotes, and Freaky Quotes.

Swimming Quotes For Swimming Teachers

• “Peak performance is meditation in motion.”— Greg Louganis
• “If you’re scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that’s the wrong way to approach a race.”— Cate Campbell
• “It’s easy to forget when you’re an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they’re still nervous.”— Leisl Jones
• “My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.” — Chad le Clos
• “In Athens I was 17 and I didn’t have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody.”— Laure Manaudou
• “I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.”
• “Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.” — Esther Williams

• “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”— Woodrow Wilson

• “Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.”— Michael Phelps
• “I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it’s so relaxing. It’s also a great form of active recovery. It’s perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit.”— Eugenie Bouchard
• “When you prepare for something, it’s like jumping into cold water, but you’re prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don’t swim, you drown.”— Rza
• “Swimming isn’t everything, winning is.”—  Mark Spitz
• “I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.” — Natalie Coughlin

• “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffett
• “I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water – fishermen, boatmen – and by a way of life that is dominated by water.”— Berlie Doherty
• “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” — Dennis Rodman

• “I’m just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.”— Don Johnson
• “Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.”— Karen Salmansohn
• “I’m so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they’re really not that bad.” — Brie Larson
• “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “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
• “I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.”— Amanda Beard

Short Swimming Quotes

• “I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.” — Michael Phelps
• “To achieve fitness one need not hit the gym. One can always opt for any sport: yoga, jog, swimming, and much more. The idea is to do something that not only burns calories but relieves stress as well.”— Milind Soman
• “Swimming is one of the hardest sports.”— Stephanie Rice
• “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. – I can’t really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead, I go swimming as often as possible.”— Jamie Dornan
• “I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.”— Colbie Caillat 
• “Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?”— Charles Saatchi
• “I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.”— Ryan Lochte
• “To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.”— Gertrude Ederle
• “For myself, losing is not coming second. It’s getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I’ve been in.”— Ian Thorpe
• “Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”— W.C. Fields
• “I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.”— Katie Hoff
• “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
• “It’s unbelievable I’m swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.” — Jade Edmistone 
• “I can’t control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.”— Leisl Jones
• “I’m trying to do the best I can. I’m not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.” — Mark Spitz
• “Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It’s the reason why I was able to swim so well.”— Libby Lenton
• “It’s unbelievable, I’m swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.” — Jade Edmistone
• “Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.”— Esther Williams
• “Never worry about what anyone else is doing…Just swim your own race.” — Dara Torres
• “I know I’ve made huge gains in my confidence and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete.”— Libby Lenton
• “People ask me ‘what was going through your mind in the race?’ and I don’t know. I try and let my body do what it knows.” — Ian Thorpe
• “We’ve seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.” — Cate Campbell
• “Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.” — Matt Biondi

Swimming Pool Quotes For Instagram

• “When you’re racing you can’t hear anyone and you’re just in your head. It’s pretty cool to know that everything is just you and it’s just a mental game.” — Penny Oleksiak
• “I’ve learned so much over the last few years, I’ve had ups and downs but I feel more motivated than ever to be the best person and athlete I can be.” — Penny Oleksiak
• “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…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 goal.” — Kieran Perkins
• “I’ve enjoyed training again, I’ve enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I’ll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.” — Ian Thorpe
• “Swimming is my passion and something that I love.” — Natalie du Toit
• “I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.” — Ryan Lochte
• “A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.” — Missy Franklin
• “Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.” — Summer Sanders
• “I can’t imagine what I would be doing if I wasn’t swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I’m focusing on.” — Cate Campbell
• “Enjoy swimming for swimming’s sake. We have to spend far too much time in the water to not enjoy the process of challenging yourself of moving through the water.” — Jeff Rouse
• “It’s a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.”— Dawn Fraser
• “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

• “I always tell people, I’m a better swimmer because I’m a mom and a better mom because I’m swimmer.” — Amanda Bear
• “Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.”— Eric Shanteau
• “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
• “If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.”— Amanda Beard

• “Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don’t hurt anyone on the way up.” — Dawn Fraser
• “The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you’re doing it, there’s nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I’m ploughing up and down the pool.” — Sophie Hannah
• “Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.” — Janet Echelman
• “No event in strongman competitions lasts longer than 40 seconds, so by swimming in fast bursts, my body is conditioned for the level of speed and power it needs.” — Eddie Hall

• “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.” — Louis Fabian Bachrach