Ian Thorpe Quotes

• When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

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• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

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• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven’t done in someone else’s.

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  Tags in Question, Things, Sometimes, Someone

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

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• I’ve missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Enjoyed, Myself

• I’m still swimming.

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• I’m more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I’m going to fail at this. I’ve become comfortable with that.

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• I’m disappointed that I really haven’t been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don’t regret giving this a go.

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• I’ll go for broke. Swim faster. It’s not going to be easy – this whole thing was never going to be easy.

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  Tags in Thing, Easy

• I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker – much quicker.

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• I think now I’ll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

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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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• 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.

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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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Ian Thorpe (15)

Birth:	13th October, 1982
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Swimmer

About

Ian James Thorpe is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds, the third-highest number of any swimmer.

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