Favorite Swimming Tee Shirt Sayings

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In another thread a member drew a parallel between learning to get off the block at the sound of the start horn, and Pavlov 's dogs salivating at the sound of a bell. That reminded me of my favorite tee from my college days. On the front: Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? On the back: No, but it makes me drool! So, that thought led me to thinking about all the cute tee shirts I've seen kids wearing at meets and was wondering what your favorite swim tee shirt saying is? At the last meet I timed there was a young woman there who was truely very fast. Her tee said, "Don't think of it as losing, think of it as being beaten by a girl!"
  • Another one I like (Walnut Creek has a bunch) is: "Go the extra mile. It's not crowded!"
  • I can't remember where I saw this one, but it made me laugh: "It's not whether you win or lose... It's whether I win or lose."
  • I have seen this at meets: "Aging slows the swimming, Swimming slows the aging" Also our team gave out a shirt to one of our members many years ago that stated this: " Aged Grouper" It was a play on the term "age group" swimming for us older folks.
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    I like the Indy SwimFit shirt from the 2003 SC Nationals. "The beatings will stop when the morale imporves." All 70 of the swimmers they brought to the meet were wearing these.
  • Being a mother of swimmers, one of my favorites was a t-shirt that said something to the effect of having sons who shaved their legs, and daughters who did not.
  • Although I can't figure out how to add all the additional symbols emphasizing the sounding out of the phrase, it is a tee-shirt with a Nike emblem I picked up at Baltimore LC Nat's in 2000. aquaticus kick-assicus (swimmers kick butt) Jim
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    Originally posted by Allen Stark 3) (front) Shaved (back) It's a swim thing ,you wouldn't understand. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh - that is sooooo good. I have to find one of those!!!
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    Hello all, First of all, a Happy New Year to everyone. Now, here's a tee shirt I like wearing. FRONT: (Over left ***) "Swimming easy?" BACK: "If swimming were easy, it would be called (check all that apply):" [] Football [] Baseball [] Basketball [] Soccer [] Tennis [] are check marks in boxes. I don't remember all on the list, but you get the idea, I'm sure. It's raised a few eyebrows. Have a great day. Mark
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    "Eat my wake."
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    When I was swimming with the junior national team, one of our many traditions was Hell Week, which basically consisted of two 7,000 yard practices a day the entire week before Christmas. For surviving it, we each received two t-shirts; one for us, one for our mothers. Our t-shirts said (front): I survived Hell Week.... (back) I just don't have the energy to care yet. Our mom's shirts said (front): My (son/daughter) is a USA junior national swimmer (Back) I wash the towels. To this DAY, my mother still has that shirt. She even had a little pin made out of the slogan on the back, and she wore it to every one of my swim meets.
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