"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world." ― Esther Williams Topic(s): Sports More From Esther Williams "What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things." "I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn’t see how they could make 26 swimming movies." "I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn’t have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit." More In Sports "I went through baseball as “a player to be named later.”"― Joe Garagiola "If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people."― William Petersen "That’s the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on."― Bernhard Langer