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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Nobody's easy until after you beat them.