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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."

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