Mark Spitz famous quotes

I swam my brains out.
-- Mark Spitz

#Brain #Olympics Games

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
-- Mark Spitz

#Sports #Trying #Goes On

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.
-- Mark Spitz

#Spring #School #Opportunity

Everyone loves to be loved.
-- Mark Spitz

#One Love

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?
-- Mark Spitz

#Winning #People #Train

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go
-- Mark Spitz

#Sports #Swimming #Trying

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 whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.
-- Mark Spitz

#Real #Team #Games

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.
-- Mark Spitz

#Drug #Levels #Able

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
-- Mark Spitz

#Past #Speak #Ability

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 is.
-- Mark Spitz

#Records #Watches #Break

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 someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night
-- Mark Spitz

#Summer #Morning #Night

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.
-- Mark Spitz

#Perseverance #Successful #Years

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 years ago.
-- Mark Spitz

#Attitude #Years #People

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
-- Mark Spitz

#Sports #Swimming #Years

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.
-- Mark Spitz

#Facts

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.
-- Mark Spitz

#Sides #Symptoms #Side Effects

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
-- Mark Spitz

#Training #Too Much #Sides

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
-- Mark Spitz

#Strong #Swimming #Coaching

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency
-- Mark Spitz

#Everyday #Everyday Life #Urgency

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic
-- Mark Spitz

#Workout #Two #Years

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
-- Mark Spitz

#Want #Pay #Guarantees

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 answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while
-- Mark Spitz

#Sports #Successful #Years

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
-- Mark Spitz

#Inspirational #Motivational #Failing

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.
-- Mark Spitz

#Inspirational Life #Thinking About You #Race

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.
-- Mark Spitz

#Inspirational #Sports #Running

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
-- Mark Spitz

#Swimming #Winning #Funny Swimming

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still
-- Mark Spitz

#House #Mind #Records

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.
-- Mark Spitz

#Life #Live Life #Life Is

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.
-- Mark Spitz

#Talking #Shaving #Olympics

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.
-- Mark Spitz

#Qualified

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.
-- Mark Spitz

#Unique #Moon #Men

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
-- Mark Spitz

#Attitude #Swim #Records

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
-- Mark Spitz

#Art #Believe #Winning

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will
-- Mark Spitz

#Loss #Olympics #Losing

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.
-- Mark Spitz

#Business #Kids #Successful

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken
-- Mark Spitz

#Broken #Records #Life Is