... : You tell me who you wish you were, and then I will tell you mine. Male: O.K., but you’ve got to promise you will tell the truth, and that you won’t laugh at mine. Female: I promise. Tell me. Male: I wish I were Mark Spitz. Female: Wow! Mark Spitz! You gotta be kidding. That’s the most ridiculous ... Male: [interrupting] Hey, wait a minute! You promised you weren’t going to laugh. Female: Yeah, but I didn’t know how dumb you were going to be. Male: Well, forget about it. Now tell me yours. Female ...
... strode around the house announcing, “I am not that I am not!” (1) “I am not that I am not!” Do you know any four‑year‑olds with that same contrary nature? Former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion Mark Spitz might have had a touch of that stubbornness. Spitz, you may remember, won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, all in world record time. This was an achievement that lasted for 36 years until it was surpassed by Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals at ...
... Servant Above and beyond everything, in the suffering servant, we see LOVE! Unfathomable, indescribable, unbelievable, unending, undying love illuminates the Savior. This love is represented by the horizontal cross-arm of the cross on which he died. Love that reaches how far? Mark Spitz, the Olympic swimmer who won seven gold medals for the United States, says that in training for the games he swam the distance of twice around the world’s equator, about 50,000 miles! Incredible, isn’t it? But God’s ...
4. Exercising Self-control
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Orien Johnson
... expectations. So he went home and began a more intensive training program than he ever thought was possible. When the contests were held in Munich in 1972, the whole world was thrilled by the unbelievable series of record-breaking swimming events won by Mark Spitz, who went home with more gold medals than any individual had ever won in Olympic competition. It was the same young man! There has probably never been a lesson pounded home with such force as this: You cannot excel in sports unless you exercise ...
