“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim…”

— Jack Kerouac , book Desolation Angels

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Jack Kerouac 266

American writer 1922–1969

George Peele (1556–1596) English translator and poet

Battle of Alcazar (acted 1588-1589, printed 1594), act V, l:104, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Published anonymously, but attributed with much probability to Peele.

“This wasn’t some kind of stunt. This was a symbolic swim, and I needed to be courageous. […] Swimming in a wetsuit or drysuit just wouldn’t send the right signal.”

Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer

p 192, describing his swim across the North Pole (2007)
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)

“If my critics saw me walking over the River Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Attributed to her in http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3637706/Quite-Interesting.html and other sources. Actually an adapted Lyndon Johnson quote "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"
Misattributed

“All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

On what sets him apart from others in his genre.
Online chat transcript http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=599285, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2007-05-01)

“How we apples swim!”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Brother Protestants; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I know a ‘swimming pool’ where these ‘young people who disturb’ can go and swim separately following their ‘own schedule’: the Mediterranean Sea.”

Sam Van Rooy (1985)

Vlaams Belang MP shocks and angers with “swimming pool tweet” https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/60104/vlaams-belang-mp-shocks-and-angers-with-swimming-pool-tweet/. referring to a press article according to which a swimming pool in Utrecht, introduced different schedules for youngsters and families, fearing the former would upset the latter.