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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

"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

"Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success."
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"I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some."
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"The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet."
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"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar."
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"You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work."
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"I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting."
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"My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too."
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"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
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"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."
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"Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating."
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"Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?"
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