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Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

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Mark Spitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 10
Swimmer
Modesto
California
Mark Andrew Spitz
Cease
Change
Live
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Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
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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.
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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.
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In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency
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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
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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while
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Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.
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(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.
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The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
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I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
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There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic
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I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.
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If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.
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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.
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As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.
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Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.
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Everyone loves to be loved.
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If you have a lane, you have a chance.
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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will
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If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.
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