Amanda Beard Quotes

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

When people say to me, ‘You’re like the Anna Kournikova who wins,’ I definitely take it as a compliment, because she’s quite gorgeous.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don’t know why, because we’re in no clothing whatsoever.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They’d introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn’t want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I’m the oldest there. Then with my friends, I’m the youngest and I’m the baby. It’s definitely bizarre.