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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.