Swam Quotes

Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I`m someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it`s real. And that`s a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it`s kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

I took more abuse in Predator (1987) than I did in Conan the Barbarian (1982). I fell down that waterfall (40 feet) and swam in this ice-cold water for days and for weeks was covered in mud. It was freezing in the Mexican jungle. They had these heat lamps on all the time, but they were no good. If you stayed in front of the lamps, the mud dried. Then, you had to take it off and put new mud on again. It was a no-win situation. The location was tough. Never on flat ground. Always on a hill. We stood all day long on a hill, one leg down, one leg up. It was terrible.

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

I was sheltered by my parents, work and school. I walked out into the world and saw things I`d only read about. I learned the hard way. It was scary, but I saw I had two choices - sink or swim. I swam. And discovered I could actually make it to the shore, all on my own. Not that I wasn`t frightened or didn`t experience moments of panic. I did.

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I`d like to be that guy now. Maybe that`s what I`m going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

I swam my brains out.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

I think we swam real well. It`s the best competition we`ve faced since the South Pacific Mini-Games in Palau. There are really good teams from Japan and Hong Kong. They brought real strong swimmers, and we suited up real well. I`m really pleased.

I grew up in the water. I surfed my whole life. I grew up in Malibu at the beach. I swam in high school and college, so it`s always been my buddy.

The first day passed, and the storm was not so bad. Tuesday we stayed. And Wednesday we swam our way to the interstate.

I followed behind her as she swam to search for the patient. I directed Vivienne to a rocky area to which she swam and secured the patient.

Radford hosted the Region III meet three years ago and I actually swam there back in the day and it always was a really fast pool.

I swam for four hours in 50-degree temperatures, and my body temperature went from 97.6, a little bit lower than normal, to a 100.2,

We swam OK tonight. You could tell that we were still a little tired.