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"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."
Race
"Swimming isn't everything, winning is."
Winning
"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
"I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician."
Dieting
"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 everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency."
Life
"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
"My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will."
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
"What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful."
Success
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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Personal Development
"Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your wit and wisdom, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!"
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Personal Development
"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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Personal Development
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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Personal Development
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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Personal Development
"Ask yourself and become more aware-are you . . . Speaking poorly of others in judgment, gossip, and intolerance? Looking for, dwelling on, and obsessing over the negative? Being grumpy, negative, and infecting others with your bad attitude or victim mentality?"
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Personal Development
"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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Personal Development
"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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Personal Development
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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Personal Development
"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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Personal Development
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