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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
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"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

"Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is."
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"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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