Natalie Coughlin Quotes

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• Without goals, training has no direction.
• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.
• I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
• I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
• I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.
• I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a…
• The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
• There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become…
• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she…
• Leading a healthy, active lifestyle is all about momentum. If I'm in the middle of training it's easy for me to keep that up. It…
• I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next.…
• When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

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