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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

— Grace Gummer

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

— Katharine McPhee

Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people - and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams - is something that is really special to me.

— Simone Manuel

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

— Rihanna

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

— Natalie du Toit

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

— Chad le Clos

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

— Esther Williams

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

— Michael Phelps

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

— Gordon Ramsay

✗Opposing 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