Mark Spitz Quotes

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• If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.
• I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
• It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go
• Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
• Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.
• The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
• And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms…
• Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.
• I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring…
• By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it…
• I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his…
• I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my…
• Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
• I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it…
• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today…
• So in my mind I own a lot of house records still
• One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an…
• I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is…
• There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic

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