Fear of Water Quotes

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

President Can't Swim.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

I'm afraid of open bodies of water. I was in a glass-bottomed boat that broke a long time ago, so I've always been kind of freaked out.

I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.

Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.

I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of the ocean.

I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching 'Jaws,' I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.