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"Swimming isn't everything, winning is."
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"The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years."
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"Winning starts with beginning."
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"As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award."
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"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."
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"Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh."
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"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
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"Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part."
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"The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing."
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"It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period."
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"I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician."
Dieting

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

"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

"When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it."
Sports

"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
Sports

"Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken."
Life

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

"Swimming isn't everything, winning is."
Winning

"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

"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
Coach
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