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This is a list of quotes that can be applied to swimming. Post a quote at the top of your workout every day; it will help keep your swimmers motivated! Tune back for daily motivation to keep yourself training hard.

6/31: "There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.--Joe DiMaggio

6/30: "It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.--Mark Spitz

6/29: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."--Tim Notke

6/28: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."--Aristotle

6/27: “Each person has his own safe place-running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.”--Barbara Gordon

6/26: If not you, then who? If not now, then when?--Andrzej Kulikowski, coach of World Record Pole Vaulter Sergey Bubka

6/25: There is water in every lane, so it is OK.--Ian Thorpe (on being in Lane 5 for a final).

6/24: Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.--Dory, from Finding Nemo

6/23: I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.--Amanda Beard

6/22: Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.--Paul Tsongas

6/21: I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.--Megan Quann Jendrick, 2 time Olympic gold medalist

6/20: 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. --Aleksandr Popov

6/19: 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