"If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail."
- Mark Spitz
Hard Work
"If you fail to prepare, you've prepared to fail."
- Mark Spitz
Responsibility
"Swimming isn’t everything – winning is."
- Mark Spitz
Ambition
"I’m trying to do the best I can. I’m not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today."
- Mark Spitz
Focus
"We all have dreams. But, in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, self discipline, and effort."
- Mark Spitz
Determination
"We have raised the bar. … But that doesn’t raise it just for the youth. That raises it for the parents, who have the primary responsibility for teaching their children principles. That raises it for the leaders. That raises it for the teachers. We’ve all got to take a step up in a world that is unraveling as fast as this one is."
- President M. Russell Ballard
Responsibility
"Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. People can’t stop you. Only you can stop you."
- Unknown
Responsibility
"Life comes at a cost. Wouldn’t it be arrogant to die before you’ve repaid that debt?"
- Yuuji Kazami
Responsibility
"You can’t win a game by doing nothing. And if someone else wins it for you then you haven’t accomplished anything. Life is the same way."
- Junichirou Kagami
Responsibility
"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
- John F. Kennedy
Responsibility