Inspiration and Motivation

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

Vince Lombardi

Inspiration and Motivation - Don't give up!

"Rome wasn't built in a day..." and neither was the swimmer...

It takes time, effort, and hard work to become the best, but practise makes us perfect...

Keep training hard, have confidence, stick at it, believe in yourself and you will succeed...

Inspiration & Motivation

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.

Alexander Popov

Inspiration & Motivation

"There is water in every lane, so it is OK."

Ian Thorpe (on being in Lane 5 for a final).

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Don't let things that you can't control freak you out!

The uncontrollable cannot be controlled...

Think about your race and no one elses!

Let everyone else worry about you... 

Its all about your swimming, the lane rope and water is just there to guide you.  

Inspiration & Motivation

"With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination."

Michael Phelps

Inspiration & Motivation - Never Give Up!

"I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!"

Petria Thomas, Athens Gold Medallist

Inspiration & Motivation

"I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice — to enjoy what you do".

Summer Sanders - 1992 double gold medallist

Inspiration & Motivation

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Amanda Beard

Motivation and Inspiration

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda

Inspiration and Motivation

"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