"Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life."

-- Benjamin Alire Saenz

#Swimming Quotes #Water Quotes #Way Quotes

“It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.”
“I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.”
“Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and frustration; to give more than is asked for or required; to size things up and make independent decisions; to work under authority and to cooperate with others; to defer to time, other persons, and to circumstances.”
“I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?”
“Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.”
“And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: â€˜A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.â€™ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.”
“True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.”
“Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.”

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