Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
Body does what mind prefers.
No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it isdo it with a smile on your face.
Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it's all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed as possible. Personally, I just try to stay in the crowd of people, just talking so my mind doesn't think only about swimming. That helps me to relax. And at this level, we all know what needs to be done once we jump in the pool
If it's going to be, it's up to me.
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
I am a super nostalgic person in general. I think part of the reason that I'm in the film business is because, to me, when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, it seemed like the most appropriate career I could have where I knew I wouldn't have to kill the little kid in me. I get to play around, and that's amazing. There's a quote from Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes that I always found really interesting. He said, "Anyone who is nostalgic about their childhood never had one. " And I always found it fascinating.
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.