A Quote by Mark Spitz

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy. — © Mark Spitz
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
I have good memories and bad memories of games against Chelsea. All the goals are good memories because all of them are special.
I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.
I've practically grown up with FC Bayern Munich since the age of 11. In my case, a talent scout noticed me when I was playing for a local youth team at Gern in Munich.
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.
I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.
My hope and my intention was that people would experience the tragedy of what Chernobyl was in every regard: a scientific tragedy, a political tragedy, an emotional and personal tragedy, all of that.
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
Certainly for me the Commonwealth Games were fantastic to compete in and I genuinely have so many great memories of the three I went to.
The Swedish winters and summers hold the most enduring memories for me. Now, when I am back in Stockholm in November, it is difficult to imagine being able to ski to school. I think that is a tragedy.
No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.
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