Texas Swimming

  After twenty years and 3M+ page views, it's time to take an indefinite break from the Texas Swimming Blog . Y'all may see a random...

As of this morning: A&M (M&W) Austin College (M) Austin College (W) Houston (W) Incarnate Word (M) Incarnate Word (W) McMurry (M) Mc...

  Islam is incompatible with western values and rights. Giorgia Meloni

  The truth prevails, but it's a chore.   (via All Posters )   Jan Garrigue Masaryk

  Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. (via 24 Frames )   Naftal...

  Too often, teacher and professors misrepresent conservative viewpoints, and intentionally muddle what it means to be a conservative. Charl...

  A thief believes everybody steals.   (via University of Minnesota )   Edgar Watson "E.W." Howe

  Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way.   (via fox59 )   Sir David Paradine Frost

  As of this morning: A&M (M) not available A&M (W) not available Austin College (M&W) not available Houston (W) not available I...

  The press is our chief ideological weapon.   (via Mirror )   Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

  When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.   (via ESPN )  ...

  Love is like an hourglass, with the heart  filling up as the brain empties. Pierre-Jules Renard

  I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. Richard Anthony "Dick" Allen  

  An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. Sir Winston Churchill  

  We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.   Newton Minow  

  When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. Maria Callas  

  The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes  

  Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears y...

  I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhamma...

  A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost  

  The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. Pablo Casals  

  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward  

   2025 World Aquatics (FINA) Junior Championships    

  The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. Gordon Parks  

    Austin Swim Club lead group coach/meet director   Texas Elite developmental coach   Elsik HS swimming coach   Texas Woman's Universi...

  Each day is a little life:  every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a li...

  Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy. Michael Stipe

  Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure.  There's no surety ...

  All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas

  What can you do against the lunatic who  is more intelligent than yourself, who  gives your arguments a fair hearing,  and then  simply pe...

  Wishing our youngest a happy 33rd. The late - and great -  Sam Kendricks made this call in prelims of the 2013 U.S. Open in Irvine :

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bobby and I went for a "walk in the woods" back in 2015. We started in Georgia on February 7 and had a very tough go of it early...

  It still holds true that man is most uniquely  human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.   Eric Hoffer

  Links to follow the 2 025 World Aquatics* Championships : Pool Results Open Water Results (complete) Pool Schedule** *Formerly FINA **May...

  To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Albert Einstein

  Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Mary Therese McCarthy