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Quotes of the Day for 2 June 2004 - Swimming

Peter János Weissmüller was born at Freidorf, Austria-Hungary (currently Timisoara, Romania) on this day in 1904. He grew up in Chicago (where he was called Johnny) and became a champion swimmer while at the University of Chicago. He won three Olympic medals in 1924 and two more in 1928 and set 67 world records during the '20s. I had a request for swimming quotes, and decided that Weissmüller's birthday is a good time to run them. In addition to his swimming, he starred in the title role in twelve Tarzan movies.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
     - Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908 - 1973

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
     - Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903 - 1990

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
     - Marcel Proust, 1871 - 1922

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
     - Norman Juster

Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
     - Woodrow Wilson, 1856 - 1924

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