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Mark Spitz Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1950

Topics

Daily Sports Tomorrow People World

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

Life Great Money Pain People Hell

More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately, we end up right where we started when it's over. All we have is maybe a round of applause when we walk in a room - Hey, there's the champ! That's great; I want that, but I've got to have something tangible to show for it, too.

Great Time Walk End Career Want

Travel by car or by bike! It helps to avoid walking too much and hurting your feet.

Car Bike Travel Feet Walking Avoid

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

True Like Most Cliches Cliche Then

I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.'

Myself Experience Anxiety Enough Say

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women Men Liberation

I think everyone's against abortion.

Think Abortion Everyone Against

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

Hands Tailor Suit Dictators Wounds

'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

Memory Cards New Playing Used Set

I never let my size matter, just like Dustin Pedroia.

Matter Never Size Just Like

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

Believe Something Who Nut Fanatic

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.

Think Go Horror More Take Off

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