“The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.”
“If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.”
“I swam my brains out.”
“Swimming isn't everything, winning is.”
“Everyone loves to be loved.”
“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.”