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Mark Spitz

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

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"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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"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."

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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

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"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."

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"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."

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"It could potentially be a very competitive race."

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Amber Hurdle

"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

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Mark Spitz
"Swimming isn't everything, winning is."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that."
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"I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician."
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"So in my mind I own a lot of house records still."
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"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."
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"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."
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Mark Spitz
"Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact."
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