By making a comeback, Im changing the attitude of people toward me. If Id known that people would react so enthusiastically, Id have done it years ago. – Mark Spitz
I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. – Mark Spitz
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night. – Mark Spitz
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker