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As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

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My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

Decade, Everything, Mom, Passes, Regret, Want
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I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.

Book, Country, Day, Possible, Remember, Sleep

Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me. . . . It's grueling. There's nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you're doing a hard workout, you're throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.

Hard Work, Nothing, Pillow, Swimming, Workout

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

Adolescent, Age, Lived, Usual, World

If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day. '

Everyday, Intensely, Life, Night, Sleep

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

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