Dawn Fraser Quotes

I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'

I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.

I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.

I'm not one of these guys who is going to build myself up to you for an over and put myself over. I do my talking in the ring.

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.

I let my game speak for itself.

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

Being the longest-reigning champion isn't that big a deal to me because records are made to be broken.

Both my kids are international swimmers and national champions.

No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.