Canadian Swimming

Canada was built on dead beavers. - Margaret Atwood

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny

I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone

This is the place to be - in the land of swimming pools. - David Hockney

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. - Robin Williams

You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man. - Unknown

The largest room available to athletes is room for improvement. - Unknown

In Russia, if a male athlete loses he becomes a female athlete. - Yakov Smirnoff

You have to know a man awfully well in Canada to know his surname. - John Buchan

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami. - Larry the Cable Guy

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. - Preston Manning

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. - Donald Trump

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. - Warren Buffet

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year. - Rachelle Lefevre

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. - Marshall McLuhan

A great athlete does not come from muscle, speed, and skill, but from the mind first. - Dan E. Welker

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull

I guess you would say I'd be like the Michael Phelps of swimming if he wasn't there. - Ryan Lochte

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. - Kevin O'Leary

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales? - Charles Saatchi

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. - Jamie Farr

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go. - Ryan Reynolds

The greatest athletes are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing. - Unknown

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us. - Sukant Ratnakar

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. - Margaret Atwood

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. - Stuart Keate

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. - Tommy Douglas

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. - Mordecai Richler

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies. - Jay Baruchel

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas