Mark Spitz Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Sports, Swimming

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

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Swimming, Trying

• 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.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Spring, School

• If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Winning, Unique

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

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Attitude, Swim

• 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.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Real, Team

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

  Mark Spitz

  Success, Sports, Past

• What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Perseverance, Successful

• Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Swimming, Winning

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No37: Mark Spitz wins seven swimming golds" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night

  Mark Spitz

  Summer, Sports, Morning

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

  Mark Spitz

  Motivational, Sports, Workout

• One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Successful, Years

• 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.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Sides, Lows

• I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Pay The Price, Guarantees

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

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Swimming, Years

• 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

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Strong, Swimming

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

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

• Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Broken, Records

• By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Attitude, Years

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