I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.
You're never too old to chase your dream.
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.
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.
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.
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. '
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.
Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests. . . . I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times. . . . Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
Don't worry about things that you have no control over, because you have no control over them. Don't worry about things that you have control over, because you have control over them.