“Everyone loves to be loved.”

“I swam my brains out.”

“If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.”

“Swimming isn't everything, winning is.”

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

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

“It existed almost by oversight, “far removed from reality,” as one of the “Kandy Kids” wrote, “where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it.”