90 Quotes by Mark Spitz

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.

There's a difference between over-training and over-exercising. Over-training can be you're trying to do something at high performance, but when you're over-exercising it just means that you don't have a life. And there are obviously people who go to that extreme.

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

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

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

I swam my brains out.

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

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

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