Ian Thorpe Swimming Quotations

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

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,

I'm looking forward to actually racing again. It's been such a long time since I've raced now, but I do look forward to my life after swimming as well.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

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.

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

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