yeaaaaaaaaah swimming!
Success does not rest.
Speed is the by-product of busting your ass.
Swim each practice as if it was the most important practice of the year.
Swimming is a sport, everything else is just a game.
Swimming is fun, and today we're going to have lots a fun
Swimmers who are willing to work out close to racing speed will ultimately swim faster when it counts.
Take the best team and the worst team. Line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference.
The winning team has a dedication--they won't accept defeat.
The swimmer who says, "It can't be done" is passed by the swimmer who is doing it.
The swimmer that makes the fewest mistakes wins.
The key to better swimming, is swimming better.
"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".
Elka Graham
"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
"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
"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. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. 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 goals." Kieren Perkins
"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from."
Ian Thorpe
"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them." Amanda Beard
"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
"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, great Chicago coach of the 20's
"I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits."
Leisl Jones
"Body does what mind prefers." Lenny Krayzelburg
"Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am 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
"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
"While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind."
Alexandr Popov
"Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people."
Olympic silver medallist Marianne Limpert
"The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a
lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi
"If you train hard,
you'll not only be hard,
you'll be hard to beat."
- Hershel Walker
Speed is the by-product of busting your ass.
Swim each practice as if it was the most important practice of the year.
Swimming is a sport, everything else is just a game.
Swimming is fun, and today we're going to have lots a fun
Swimmers who are willing to work out close to racing speed will ultimately swim faster when it counts.
Take the best team and the worst team. Line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference.
The winning team has a dedication--they won't accept defeat.
The swimmer who says, "It can't be done" is passed by the swimmer who is doing it.
The swimmer that makes the fewest mistakes wins.
The key to better swimming, is swimming better.
"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".
Elka Graham
"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
"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
"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. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. 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 goals." Kieren Perkins
"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from."
Ian Thorpe
"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them." Amanda Beard
"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
"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, great Chicago coach of the 20's
"I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits."
Leisl Jones
"Body does what mind prefers." Lenny Krayzelburg
"Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am 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
"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
"While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind."
Alexandr Popov
"Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people."
Olympic silver medallist Marianne Limpert
"The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a
lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi
"If you train hard,
you'll not only be hard,
you'll be hard to beat."
- Hershel Walker