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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

Done, Losing, Motivational, Sports, Swimming, Water

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

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I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

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When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done. . . to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

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