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My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

— Dorothy Hamill

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.

— Aimee Willmott

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

— Gordon Ramsay

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

— Katharine McPhee

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

— Summer Sanders

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

— Diana Nyad

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

— Jo Brand

I surf, swim, play water polo, and I paddle an outrigger canoe with my team. I'm also a klutz on land, so water is my thing.

— Auli'i Cravalho

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

— Summer Sanders

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

— Rod Taylor

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

— Jolene Blalock