Diving Quotations

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.'

I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen.

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

I'm at 23 feet, diving into 17 feet of water. I'm over 400 pounds. Who doesn't want to see that? I do. I'm always shocked that I can do it.

I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.

I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

MAN is flying to the Moon and diving into the Sea; but he does not know how to live on Earth with his fellow men in Love and Peace. He moves towards the Moon for fear others may reach there before him and dives through the Sea to strike terror, himself terrified of others!

One play in the second half summed up this entire season. We were up by 20 and we had three guys diving on the floor for a loose ball.

Richard Quick has undeniably been one of the top coaches in the history of swimming, ... He has developed our women's swimming and diving program into one of the most respected and successful programs in the history of collegiate swimming. We wish him success in all of his future endeavors and thank him for his service to Stanford University.

If we're going diving with sharks, I count all his arms and legs, and if he's been doing it for 20 years, I figure he knows what he's doing. I tell him, 'Look, you're going to be the focus of this story, Mr. Expert. If I get hurt, you look bad.'

Louisville was bigger and more physical than us. Jon brings that for us now. Even if he doesn't get the rebounds, he's diving for balls and keeping other guys from getting them. He makes Mike and the rest of us play harder.

She dove as well as she's been diving all year, but the competition was definitely the toughest she's seen, and that's how it should be. I was just very pleased with how well she did.

She always gets overlooked but she played a great game tonight. She's got the hurt ankle and she's the one diving on the floor for loose balls.

(She had) three diving catches from center field.

She is a total change of pace. When she goes in, she gets the other girls hustling and she's diving all over, she's always trying to make something happen and doesn't let up.

She played her typical game, just really good aggressive defense, outstanding on the boards, diving after loose balls.

Security is a big thing. Safety and security has been a diving factor in this release all along. We know what we need to do to in order to make this system one that people are going to be able to feel safe and secure when they get it.

I hate to see losses like that. I want to see the team play like the one we had last year, that was always playing hard and diving for balls.

He is still young and hasn't started diving yet. But, he will.

I get to get paid to go scuba diving for four months in the Caribbean? Fine!

He was taking charging fouls, he was diving on the floor for loose balls and taking the ball to the basket and hitting open threes. He looked as relaxed and comfortable out there as he could possibly be.

He had a really good save off a direct kick. They bent the ball around a (defensive) wall and he made a diving save into the corner.

He's going to be there, diving along with some of the most elite athletes in the state. It will make him a better diver for next year.

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

He does all the intangible stuff. That's his biggest role in the grand scheme of things - drawing charges, getting rebounds, setting picks, diving for loose balls, putting a body on people.

He gave us what we needed. The ball was diving probably more so than we've seen, with the amount of strikeouts that you saw. I've said many times, there are sinkers, and then there's what he throws up there.

He gives that little extra effort. Some things people won't do like diving on the floor or diving for a loose ball. Those are the little extra things that some people don't do. That separates them.

Long-term investors should stay the course, ... No one should be diving into this market with the notion that they'll make fast money because that's not the case.

It is likely that additional damage will be reported as underwater damage assessments are completed. These have been delayed because of overwhelmed support resources, such as diving equipment, support vessels, and remotely operated vehicles.

It is always an honor for our men and women to be recognized for their efforts in the classroom. Each year our swimming and diving team not only strives for excellence in the water but also in academics.

Our senior post players, Simpson and Rodgers, really stepped it up in the second half. They were diving for loose balls and hitting the boards on both ends of the floor.

I think everybody is looking for somebody to step up and bring that energy out on the floor. If it is like diving on the floor for a loose ball and having everybody come over there to pick you up and that is going to get us going, then hey I am willing to do that.

It feels great to be part of a team transaction, because diving is an individual sport. The last three rounds of the finals were really close. It was pretty intense feeling, and I liked it a lot because it made me try harder and made me get the gold medal. I couldn't ask for anything more.

It forces the player not to use their legs. In heading, you don't really generate power from the legs, you generate it from the waist up. You could also build to having them do diving headers with the second exercise.

I think we bring an intensity to the game. We don't mind diving on the floor for loose balls. That's our job. That's why we're here. We go in there and do the banging.

I thought Ryan and Lewis (Jackson) played hard. (Friday) we were diving on the floor, going after every loose ball, cutting off passes. Tonight we didn't do any of that. I don't know why. It's stunning.

I thought we really played hard. We were diving all over the place for loose balls. I still think our strength is taking the ball to basket, but we relied on the three too much and that hurt us.

I wasn't as athletic as a lot of the other guys, so you've got to do the little things. You've got to hustle. You've got to box out because you're not going to jump over anybody. For me and (Lillis), getting on the floor and diving for a loose ball is as good as getting a dunk.

You know what's getting me to play better? Not thinking at all. I think right now I'm in a good place where it's like 'just play. Don't worry about what's going to happen, what might happen. Do what you're good at and everything else will fall into place.' I can play defense and I can rebound. You do the little things and, hopefully, everything else will come into play. Whether it's getting on the boards, diving on the floor ... whatever I can do.

We are in discussions with FIFA on retrospective disciplinary action and we have raised diving as a priority area where video evidence could be used.

I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a relaxed atmosphere, which allowed the divers to let it all out and not be worried. Michael Bennett became our sixth and final NCAA zone qualifier. So all of our divers qualified for the NCAA zone meet. I did not expect that to happen, but I think that it is great that it did.

We have people come who have never seen men's volleyball with the power and the speed of the ball and etc., etc.. Then here comes this little guy out there playing like a chicken with his head cut off diving for balls and flopping all around.

(Michigan) has had one of the best programs around. We've had some competitive meets with them. A couple times we swam better, but their diving beat us.

You always see on the highlights the home run. You might see the diving catch. You don't see the spectacular stuff, the stuff that really makes the game work. That's what we're missing.

We hope this organization can attract more people to choose diving as their new hobby.

We played great team defense. The guys were diving around all over the place making plays. ... Graves did a great job.

We played so much better in the field. Haley Wells made a laid-out, diving catch in the outfield. Everyone took care of their business on defense and I was very pleased with that. Defense had been hurting us a lot.

When I'm out there people say I'm not a scorer. I still have it in me. But we have a whole group of people that can score. I've got to do the things that sort of make us a championship team, diving for loose balls, using my size under the basket. That's what I have to do.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

Those are a bonus. I just want him to catch the plays right to him. Those diving plays are a bonus. Any time he does something well, it helps his confidence. Being here should help his confidence.

W hen you see kids diving across the floor, kids hustling.

We worked harder and we wanted it more. Down to the end, people were diving for balls and getting on the floor.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

We put them in, and they're running all around, diving on the floor and flying all over the place. They do the kinds of things that you love to see.

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.

When I see a 240-pound guy diving around like a squirt after taking one of our guys' knees out? I don't feel too good. I kind of feel embarrassed for him, actually.

We killed Maxi tonight. She was diving all the time tonight.

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

We faced all the Big Ten schools and they really showed themselves and represented Eastern Michigan well. I think they opened people's eyes up to what Eastern Michigan diving is all about.

We're hoping I'll be back in one of the next two games, ... To be honest I haven't really done anything 100 percent yet except for diving around a little bit today. But I've been given the green light to try everything including kicking the ball, which in the past has been a bit of a problem in recovery.

(Earlier this season), when we came back from the Hall of Fame tournament after losing to Lebanon by 13 and Columbus East by nine, we had to do something. We spent the next three days at practice taking charges and diving for loose balls. These kneepads were a statement that no one was going to play harder than Castle.

Diving is worse than shirt-pulling or tripping. It is betraying the players and the referee. I'm in favor of red cards for diving.

diving off a diving board without knowing if there is any water in the pool.

What's amazing is that Ashley has only been diving for two years. It usually takes a lot longer to develop a national champion. And she was diving against 14- and 15-year-olds at the AAU Nationals.

Until it gets to a high competitive level, diving is not a popular sport. That gives us time to practice to get to the high level. That's when everybody wants to come and watch.

We need to remember there have been huge changes in how humans use the water over the last 20 to 30 years. When our parents and grandparents went into the water, they maybe wiggled their toes, or if they were very daring, jumped in and swam. People of our generation are surfing, diving, sail boarding, scuba diving, skin diving and engaging in all kinds of activities.

We're the ones who are going to put the ball in the hole and diving on the floor. There are little things we have to take care of in the next couple of weeks. I think we can get it done. It can still be a great year for us.

The shop supports my hobby. I can earn money from diving to support my hobby.

These are young guys and we're trying to win. For me to build a winning environment, you have to try to win every night. These guys were scratching and diving for balls and they deserved to win.

It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.

We should be diving late Saturday, I would think.

We should be there and diving . . . Saturday morning.

You look at every one of those games we've played against them and you can just see the level of play getting bigger and bigger. You see girls diving into the front row. You see teams coming back on one another. That just shows you what these games mean to these girls.

To me, if you're No. 1 it's like having a target on your back. Everybody wants to beat you. Everybody's going at your knees, going to the floor, diving for loose balls.

Tonight's game can be summed up in one word and that would be effort. We didn't talk about it but that was the key to the game. We had guys diving on the floor going for loose balls and we were coming up with them.

There is no similarity between diving and other sports. Every sports team has its own way to solve problems and you can not mix them up at any time.

This one was more nerve-wracking than last year, because I'm retiring from diving after nine years. I was only behind by five points (to Harmon), but I knew my last dives were real strong.

Once you get to state, anybody can beat anybody. It's just a time when you get teams going beyond 100 percent and it's just so fun to be a part of. Every loose ball, every player's on the ground diving for it. Every point matters and you never know what will happen.

Once you get to this level, there are so many good basketball players. You have to find what's going to get you on the court, playing defense, getting rebounds, diving on loose balls, the hustle plays.

Coach Carroll keeps things fun for us. You never know what he's going to do next. I can still remember the day that he jumped off the high diving board because he felt like it. Even I wouldn't have done something like that.