When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

The main thing is not to let go of the vine.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.

But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn't even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

I wouldn't be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.