"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.“

-Mark Spitz

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Mark Spitz quote about cool: "I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."

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"One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while."

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"Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing."

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"I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!"

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"I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool."

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"Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid."

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"Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises."

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