Links & Quips

Links
Visit these links for swimming related information and fun things for swimmers. Suggestions for this section? Please email us!

USA Swimming

YMCA Swimming and Diving

Go Swim

Swimming World Magazine

Worldwide Aquatics

Swim Outlet - Suits, swim shampoos and lots of items for swimmers at great prices


Quips
Chlorine is my perfume.  ~Author Unknown

It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim. ~Author Unknown

Not all athletes wear tennis shoes. ~Author Unknown

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? ~Steven Wright

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water — can you swim?  ~Author Unknown

What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn.  ~Author Unknown

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak.  ~Author Unknown

When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.  ~Author Unknown

If you have a lane, you have a chance.  ~Author Unknown

Oxygen is overrated.  ~Author Unknown

Swimming - what real men do while boys play football.  ~Author Unknown

Chlorine:  the breakfast of champions!  ~Author Unknown

I simply can't understand
Why swimsuits are in such demand
They're soggy and damp,
Bind like a clamp,
And hold about three pounds of sand!
~D.R. Benson

I can't fly, but swimming is the next best thing.... The water is my sky. ~Author Unknown

Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement. ~Paul Tsongas

It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it.  We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.  ~Author Unknown







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