Mark Spitz Quotes, Thoughts and images

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

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

I swam my brains out.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

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

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

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

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

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

If you have a lane, you have a chance.

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

Everyone loves to be loved.

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.

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

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

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

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

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

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

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

I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did.

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

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.