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Mark Spitz Quotes

«I swam my brains out.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer) | Keywords: swam
«I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«Their destiny and where they want to be in life is not going to be a matter of chance ... it's really the choices they make, and they have to be committed to those choices.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«It really changed how we do things in sports. Certainly, nothing happened to preplan or expect what was going to happen that day, as opposed to today, when extreme logistics go into planning.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Don Schollander. He said, 'Keep up with him,' which I did. Then he taught me how to beat him, which I did. He was a great teacher. He knew what he was doing, and he instilled a tremendous amount of confidence in those around him.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«I realized I had to step up to the responsibilities of my dream.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)
«The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.»
Author: Mark Spitz (Swimmer)