Words matter. These are the best Mark Spitz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
So in my mind I own a lot of house records still.
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 they don’t want to fail. They don’t want to pay the price unless there’s a guarantee they’re going to get there.
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude.
Everyone loves to be loved.
I swam my brains out.
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can’t forget losing. I never will.
I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I’m trying to see how far I can go.
There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
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 of having high cholesterol.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He’s elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.
I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one’s ability and likelihood for success.
If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We’d both be unique.
Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.
Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.
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 of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.
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 level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.
