No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.