"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win." ― Mark Spitz Topic(s): Health More From Mark Spitz "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." "The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude." "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." More In Health "Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."― Laurence J. Peter "I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."― Kim Basinger "My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened."― Warren Christopher