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"Swimming isn't everything, winning is."
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"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
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"No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink."
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"Winning tastes good."
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"Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum."
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"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."
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"We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title."
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"The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one."
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"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."
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"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."
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"Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?"
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"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
Sports
"In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency."
Life
"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."
Attitude
"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
Coach
"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."
Sports
"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."
Thought
"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."
Being
"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."
Age
"I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program."
Sports
"The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude."
Attitude
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