Johnny Weissmuller Quotes

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

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

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• We didn’t have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

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• Treat your body well, and it’ll see you through for many years.

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

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• The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you’re only as good as your last picture.

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• 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.

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

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• No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

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

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• I need freedom to be happy.

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• I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

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• 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.

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

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• How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

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• Can you imagine – a blond Tarzan?

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• All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

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Johnny Weissmuller (17)

Birth:	2nd June, 1904
Death:	20th January, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Swimmer

About

Johnny Weissmuller was born in Timisoara, Romania. He was an American competition swimmer and actor, best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. He was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo. He won fifty-two U.S. national championships, set more than 50 world records, and was purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career. His role in several films include: Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan Escapes, Tarzan's Secret Treasure, Tarzan Triumphs, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Tarzan and the Amazons, Swamp Fire, Tarzan and the Huntress, Jungle Jim, The Lost Tribe, Voodoo Tiger, Cannibal Attack, and Jungle Moon Men.

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