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In swimming...you need...dedication, strength, both physically and mentally, perserverece, passion, the urge to be just a
little bit better and dont forget the most important thing, courage. Courage to swim your most dreaded stroke. Courage to
sprint until you can't breath, or walk. Courage to be the best, YOUR best. GO BIG OR GO HOME! im applying all those things
at swim practice, be back later!
Swimming is the only sport where you go from point A to point A and have to work like hell to get there.
Swimmers don't swim because its fun. Ask any of us, most of us hate it, but we couldn't imagine our lives without it.
Its part of us, something we live for. We live for the 3 hr practices, the team parties, the long bus rides, the invitationals,
the countless swim caps, the jokes, the friendships, the laughs, the love, the coaches you hate but appreciate later, and
the sport itself. We live for the way you become a family with your team, and no one understands what happens within that
pool or locker room but you and your teammates. We live for the countless songs you sing in your head when you're swimming
all those laps. We live for the people who scream at you while you're swimming even though all you hear is BLAH BLAH BLAH.
We live for the competition, we live for the friends, we live for the practice, and we live for the pain. We live for the
team; it's a part of us because we are swimmers.
Swimsuit: $50
Swim Cap: $3
Towel: $15
Explaining why your brother shaves his legs and you haven't shaved in months: priceless.
Swimming is better than all the sports and heres why:
We kick more than SOCCER players.
We bump in to more things than VOLLEYBALL players bump the ball.
We yell louder than CHEERLEADERS!
We have better uniforms than FOOTBALL players.
We cant get yelled at by our coach for hogging the spot light like BASKETBALL players.
We dive farther and long to get to our home plate more than BASEBALL players.
We are physically and mentally stronger than HOCKEY players.
We move more than DANCERS.
We do more flips than GYMNASTS.
We do more laps than RUNNERS.
Top 10 reasons why i am a distance swimmer
10. I get more swim for my money.
9. During the race I have more time to sing songs to MYSELF!!
8. Distance swimmers can count higher.
7. Lap counters get down on their knees for me!
6. You've got plenty of time to go to the bathroom before you're heat is up.
5. I can name all the swimmers in my event.
4. People chear for me longer!
3. It's the only race you can win in after doing a cannonball for a dive.
2. I actually get to breath as I swim.
1. If my ship ever sinks, I have the best chance to make it to shore.
Backstrokers do it on their backs, Breastrokers do it underwater, Flyers do it with their hips, Freestylers do it any
way, IMers do it four ways, Sprinters do it faster, Divers do it deeper, and Distance swimmers last longer, Any way you put
it, swimmers do it better!
Swimmers spend 50% of their lives 70% naked.
Swimmers make great lovers because of their strong hip flexors and abdominal muscles that give then great stamina in bed.
- PlayBoy Magazine
Because of physiological changes in certain hormone producing metabolic pathways during aerobic exercise, swimmers are
the most sexually active athletes. -Time Magazine
H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession.
Chlorine is my perfume.
Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t
explain it.
Chlorine: the breakfast of champions!
It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't
stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.
Somebody has to stop the clock, mind as well be you.
Instant Swimmer, Just Add Water.
We swim because we are too SEXY for a sport that requires clothes.
In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little
that separates us physically at the elite level.
Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
It's not how far you swim in practice; and its' not how fast you swim in practice--it's how far you swim fast in practice.
Practice is 90% physical-10% mental. Championship meets are 10% physical-90% mental.
Swim each practice as if it was the most important practice of the year.
Swimming is a sport, everything else is just a game.
My element is water. My weapon is my body. My world is swimming.
We bust ours to kick yours.
Real athletes don't wear shoes.
If you have a lane, you have a chance!
We swim for laughter, we swim for tears, we swim for madness, we swim for fears, we swim for hope, we swim for screams,
we are the swimmers, we create the dreams!!
Pain is temporary, Pride is forever!
When you aren't practicing, someone, somewhere, is and when you meet her she will win!
You know you're a swimmer when: You have permanent goggle marks and suit hickies, You go through the economy size bottle
of lotion weekly, Your leg hair is long enough to measure, Chlorine is your perfume, The word taper is a godsend, Vacation
is hell on earth, You live on a diet of Gatorade and Powerbars, Sleeping in means waking up at 7, and Guys in Speedos just
lose their attractiveness.
Dedication is putting on a suit three sizes too small.
You might be a swimmer:
If whenever you hear an electronic beep, and you instinctively jump.
If you have rings around your eyes unrelated to the amount of sleep you got.
If waking up before dawn to exercise seems normal.
If jamming a piece of Styrofoam between your legs is not a kinky sexual activity.
If you sport long, curling hair with split ends on your legs.
If you answer, "I don't need to" when someone asks when you showered last.
If you love a good lightning storm when you have outdoor practice.
When you learn how to squirt water 15 different ways.
When you wake up before six for the free doughnuts.
When you go through so much latex in one season you could wallpaper your room.
If your friends have stopped asking you about your plans for the evenings.
If the first place you go when you're stressed out is a swimming pool.
If your daily apparel is held together by knots or is torn and see through.
If the phrase, "50 double armed backstroke with a breast stroke kick makes you happier than anything.
If being fish-like is a compliment.
If your nightmares consist of a series of numbers ending in 0 or 5.
If you have hickeys on your neck.
If you sweat chlorine even after showering.
If getting smacked on the butt doesn't bother you at all.
If you shamelessly walk around the hallways at school in your bathing suit.
If your stronger than many of the guys and all the girls in your grade.
If you have to try on 30 shirts just to find one that fits your shoulders.
If your hair remains in a wet ponytail throughout the day.
If when the life guard tryouts say you have to swim a 500 in less than 9 minutes you laugh.
If you have a permanent suit, goggle, and cap tan.
If all you ever do is eat and sleep during school.
If all your saturday and friday nights are spent around water.
If the first thing you look at in a guy is abs.
If you are at the school so early in the morning for practice that you beat the janitors there and the lights in the parking
lot are off.
If a practice of only 5000 yards sounds like heaven to you.
If you practice 3 or more times a day during the summer.
If your shoes always squeak when you walk down the hall.
If you walk around with minimal amounts of clothing on.
If there are wet towels over every door in your house.
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