Mark Spitz Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“I swam my brains out.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.”

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

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

“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.”