I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.
I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.
I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.
I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.
My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the working day, then we go to our local health club for a swim and to sit by the pool and read for a while.
At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we al...
It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
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.
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
[Waiting to be baptized in a swimming pool] Vampira: Why couldn't we do this in the church? Criswell: Because Brother Tor couldn't fit in the sacred tub.
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures ...
