Mark Spitz Quotes

• I’m at the depot, and I’m not going anywhere. That’s better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don’t want to fail. They don’t want to pay the price unless there’s a guarantee they’re going to get there.

  Mark Spitz

• I wasn’t able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.

  Mark Spitz

• I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master’s program.

  Mark Spitz

• I swam my brains out.

  Mark Spitz

• I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

  Mark Spitz

• I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I’d like to be that guy now. Maybe that’s what I’m going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

  Mark Spitz

• I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

  Mark Spitz

• I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

  Mark Spitz

• Everyone loves to be loved.

  Mark Spitz

• 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.

  Mark Spitz

• Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

  Mark Spitz

• And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

  Mark Spitz

• 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.

  Mark Spitz

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Birth:	10th February, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Swimmer

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