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... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

She was bummed out with swimming and was thinking about quitting. Dana was only interested in swimming miles with the long strokes. She did not have any desire to learn the short strokes. I talked with her about changing that, and she had a wonderful attitude with it. She really loves swimming and wanted to fall in love with it again.

She was in the (Westerly) High School meet on Friday. She would have won if she wasn't tired from swimming the day before.

She's important to us, and we can't wait to have her back. But, obviously, she needs to be at that meet. Swimming is what she's probably going to do in college, so we're behind her all the way.

She got involved with the Dolphin Research Center. We have a picture of her swimming with the dolphins.

Since we're young, it's a good experience to have during the season. The more experience you have swimming against top quality teams and top quality kids, the better you're going to get.

She just thought West Newton needed a swimming pool.

Most of us have had Red Cross swimming lessons when we were growing up as children. We have a whole coastal region of water and many of our children haven't had swimming lessons because they're uncomfortable around water, can't get to the lesson or parents can't afford the lessons.

Obviously we beat them. And Fenwick is a very good team. We have been swimming hard teams lately. We swam Naperville Central last week and that is one versus two (ranked). So it has been pretty draining.

No no, not boxers, they look like these kind of swimming trunks type thing, underwear, and it's the sort of thing that... I really can't see anyone wanting to wear them! And I sort of just get in, and I've not actually seen the bit where you see me with my top half undressed... but I've seen the bit after that where I'm just in the bath. It is very funny with Moaning Myrtle. It's a really good scene, but I'm sort of a bit nervous about seeing that in the cinema.

My dad swims with me in the morning. He swims with old buddies of his. I've always had connections with swimming through my dad. My dad always tells me to reach at the finish. He's always, always reminding me.

Next thing they know, water is on top of them, ... My older brother, Scott, and our friend, Clark, were swimming in the house trying to get the kids. My brother, Jeff, has three kids. He was trying to get them up in the attic.

Richard Quick has undeniably been one of the top coaches in the history of swimming, ... He has developed our women's swimming and diving program into one of the most respected and successful programs in the history of collegiate swimming. We wish him success in all of his future endeavors and thank him for his service to Stanford University.

I was really young when I swam at Ridgewood. I don't remember much besides that I was a little kid who was happy to be out of school for the summer. But I do remember Peter from swimming there and from going to school with him. I'm really glad I got to know all those guys growing up, and its really great to still see (Peter) at meets, even if it's only three times a year.

I would expect that most of them will be swimming quicker now than they were a month ago because they are close to tapering for the Commonwealth Games trials.

I guess it came naturally. We both swam the same events. Our passion from swimming comes from our mom (Ann).

I don't feel like I made the mistakes to lose the match. I think he played well to beat me. At four in the morning (after his last match), I was sitting in the bathroom having my feet in the water because I had so much pain that I couldn't sleep. I had a really bad blister on my feet. Then all day I was basically taking care of my feet and went for a swimming pool, had a massage, was worrying if I will be even able to run on the court. In the end, I was really happy the way I played. I mean, I had the pain, but I overcame it and I tried to fight to win the match.

I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, including Wyndley Swimming Pool, one of the busiest in the region.

I am looking forward to the challenge of swimming against him.

I am in two minds about it (the criteria). I think basing selection on world rankings is a bit harsh. I can understand Swimming Australia wants to set the bar fairly high, but I don't think it should be at the expense of a Commonwealth Games medal. I am a fan of choosing the team based on Commonwealth rankings.

I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water.

I am sure he is at home feeling motivated by watching this and wanting to step up again, ... I am looking forward to the challenge of swimming against him.

Because Putnam and Volusia counties have manatee viewing as a spring and summertime tourist attraction, the need to be safe is imperative and the boaters are very cognizant of them being in the water. We are not big fans of people swimming with manatees, but manatee viewing is something everyone should do before they die. It is that awesome. People have a heightened awareness of manatees after actually seeing them.

I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.

I had quad bypass surgery in 2003. There are three of us in (two) age groups that have had quad bypass surgery. I was getting shortness of breath. In swimming you know when things aren't right.

I can't expect 13 girls with nine freshmen to be able to go out there and hold their own. I also don't want to be discouraging. It's not that we can't accomplish good things, but we are in a league packed with swimming powerhouses.

Getting the recognition is rewarding. It's not like the football players. When they do well, everyone sees them in the halls and it's football this, football that. Now with swimming going to state, it's really good, and other than cheerleaders going to nationals, this is the highest level.

Frankly, this is a darn good economy to start with. He's inheriting an asset, not a liability. It's not as if he's swimming upstream.

I entered swimming this year, ... Bill and I used to spend some of our time in Green Valley, Ariz. When we lived in our winter home in Arizona, I did track and field, swimming, and softball throw. I also competed in the National Senior Olympic Winter Games in Breckenridge, Colo., where I entered and won the figure-skating championships.

He will be back. I would like to see him back out there in under three weeks. We'll try to figure out everything we can do to speed this up. Fortunately, it's a non-displaced fracture and it's fairly stable right now, so he'll be able to take some light batting practice, doing his throwing, some aerobic stuff on a bike and possible work out in a swimming pool. So when he's pain-free and the doctors clear him, he should be ready to play.

There is no deadline from Swimming Australia or the Commonwealth Games Association.

We talked a number of times about how good this team could be if we dedicated ourselves to a single goal. Swimming in Ohio is so fast that you must train all year long in order to be successful. Unfortunately, we didn't do that as a team. The drive to next year's state championship meet has already begun.

He's a swimming legend. I was excited to meet him.

He's given a lot to Canadian swimming and our program,

I admire the kids being able to take this kind of pressure. They work for four years and everything comes down to less than 30 seconds. In other sports, there's a losers' bracket or you can work back in a second half. At some point there's redemption. In swimming it comes down to one perfect race at the exact right time.

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

He conveys the poetry, the natural rhythms, of his characters' speech. Everything - emotion, movement, thought, intention - is inherent in that rhythm. Actors sometimes like to dissect, to analyze, to do all those things actors are taught to do. But those things don't put me closer to this work's heart. I have to surrender all that. It's like going to a lake or a swimming pool. You just have to dive in, to immerse yourself. Working in his plays requires a different kind of skill. It's as if you would become a talking drum.

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Just swimming in these conditions would be challenging,

I think it's a good start for my short course swimming and it is even better for the longer distance games.

I think it should be a really close meet. They'll be ready for us and they'll be swimming pretty fast.

I thought the key was everybody pulling together and swimming their hearts out.

I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

I think it was the biggest weekend in a quarter century for a women's swimming team at Rutgers.

I think swimming goes in cycles. It's just very important to keep the new blood coming through and we're beginning to do that.

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.

I was about 200 yards out, just past the second sandbar, ... And when I heard the scream, I turned around and saw one of the girls swimming towards the beach frantically and the other one had disappeared and there was a big dark spot where she used to be in the water.

I want young New Zealanders in future generations and older New Zealanders to be able to go out on a boat and see if they're lucky, because they are hard to see, a great white swimming in the ocean.

I was just sliding around, swimming and hoping I was going to hit it and it went under my pad.

It is always an honor for our men and women to be recognized for their efforts in the classroom. Each year our swimming and diving team not only strives for excellence in the water but also in academics.

I think St. Joseph is a much better team that they were in December. Their third and fourth swimmers are swimming much better this time of year than they were earlier in the year.

Just do something. Pick something that you really love, whether it's dancing or swimming or walking or running. It will renew you.

Kyle's, for instance, would've happened in a swimming pool. The way that thing got pinned and turned had nothing to do with the turf whatsoever, ... What we're examining very closely, quite frankly, are the shoes. The players all want, just like the padding, as little a shoe, as light a shoe, as fast a shoe as they can get. But the shoe also is a very strong support mechanism for the foot.

I see a lot of my skills in this position, I'm excited about this opportunity.. After all, swimming shaped me as an individual.

I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

Over half of the team had best times. And they are really, honestly not supposed to be having best times right now. Because they are swimming very, very tired and their muscles are just fatigued.

Overall we had a tremendous day. It's one of our fastest years in the last 10, there is just a tremendous amount of fast swimming going on now (in Texas).

Palestinians will point across the road to an Israeli settlement where they see a swimming pool being filled and they point to their own community where there's barely any water at all -- and they'll express a great deal of anger about it.

Our performances in the relays today were a testimony to the Stanford tradition to be at your best when swimming for the team.

Our team is young and kind of inexperienced with larger meets. They're not used to swimming against 18-year-olds. It's a different atmosphere. But they did well. I'm proud of them.

Outside of the Olympics, swimming seems to disappear from public view and there's a drop-off in participation. Young kids are drawn to what will get their name in the paper. But those who stay realize the beauty of the sport.

Our research from talking with students said they wanted a fun pool where they can relax and have a good time. That's why we envisioned a leisure pool with some lap lanes. You can swim in the leisure part of the pool. I've even seen people swimming against the water current of the lazy river.

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Terry backed up and did a swan dive into the water and was swimming after the fish and the rod. It's the only time I ever saw a fish catch a man.

My older brother, Scott, was swimming around the house trying to get the kids. My younger brother, Jeff, has three little kids. They were trying to get them up in the attic. My grandmother, who is almost 90, they were trying to get her up in the attic or on top of a washing machine or a counter or whatever. Fortunately, they all survived. But now, as bad as that was, the worst is yet to come.

Nate had a great meet. He's a hard worker in practice. He's starting to understand the fine tuning of swimming like setting up starts, turns and finishes.

I won states last year, and I really wanted to get the gold. I'm swimming the 100 free (today) so I really want to go home with that gold.

I was having a nap by the swimming pool and was awoken by this huge hand holding my wrist. I looked up and this gorilla-like shape had blocked out the sunlight. It was Freddie. 'It's alright, it's Freddie. I've never seen you quiet for so long David and I was just checking you still had a pulse,' Freddie told me.

I think I am a lot more determined with myself because of swimming and I'm really disciplined and I have a good work ethic.

I think it will be important to make sure I'm in the best condition possible for this weekend. At the beginning of the season, I began preparing for the road courses by lifting more weights and trying to improve my conditioning. I've found that the combination of swimming and then running really adds a new dimension to my overall performance as I have built my stamina significantly over the past several months.

Mei is someone I was lucky to have. She was a lot of fun. She has a lot of good swimming ahead of her.

We've tried from the outset to show there's a step-by-step process to all of this. If you're in a swimming pool and the water's over your head, you're reaching with your toes to find bottom before you can push yourself up to the surface. I think at this juncture, we feel like we've certainly found bottom and now everything's in front of us.

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

That's tough as a coach. Whoever is swimming is who she's rooting for.

I was really excited. I started swimming year round, but I didn't expect to make states. It was a shock.

When the Australians walked out, the crowd went nuts, and when we walked out, the crowd went even more nuts. I can't describe how amazing that was. Three thousand people were here rooting for the two strongest swimming nations. I'll never forget that, and I was glad to be part of it.

When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

We just came to have a good time. I was skim boarding, but we were just swimming at the time.

You know, I literally lost all control of my bowels up there. I couldn't think. I was swimming in my head. So I was lucky to get out what I got out.

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.

We encourage the EPA to develop standards to prevent not just bacterial but also viral illnesses from swimming in polluted waters. Right now we do not know if the standards meet both.

We got both the relays in the consolation. They're swimming tomorrow. That's what we're shooting for, for them to get another swim. They swam well. We have three freshmen on there and one senior. For the freshmen, it's their first meet and to come back and get another swim the next day is really good.

We handed out gifts and care packages, and some of the students went swimming with the kids.

We?re willing to meet the needs that we create. What is the nexus between building a new home and creating the need for a performing arts center and a swimming pool?

We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 years old.

We have a lot of young swimmers on the men's side. Athletes take longer in men's swimming to make a difference, and this team will continue to grow as they gain experience.

We were strong and solid and steady. We acted as a good team today. Every boy we had swimming individually in a race got through (to state). That's a first for us.

Travelling on the road and swimming away from home always presents a challenge. We are ready to meet this challenge and we are motivated to prove ourselves away from the ONAT. We have won four-straight on the road and have competed well and I am looking forward to a solid performance.

When I first started I only swam during the high school season, so I didn't get much out of it, ... Then last year I really got serious and buckled down. I started swimming year-round and just bloomed, I guess.

We've been getting ready for sectionals, so the scores here aren't a big deal. In this meet, we have fun. We like swimming against Bloomington North.

Unless we swim really fast, it may not turn out too good. We're swimming in one of the fastest regions in the state and we're hoping to hang in there in the top two. If we come in with our game faces on and shaved down, we could have a chance to swing the meet. We've got a shot.

We came out swimming tough. This team is really starting to bond. They know what they want to accomplish.

We found a little natural water but no river, ... With the size of the hole we dug, that would have made for one hell of a swimming pool.

We were able to use our divers in swimming events and it turned out each of them can help us as swimmers, so we're not complaining. I told the kids it was disappointing they couldn't dive, but here was another opportunity for them. I also reminded them that they are all sophomores and they have plenty of time to work and get better.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.