I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.
From Mark Spitz
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
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.
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.
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.
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.
Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
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