The notion of eight golds was always a means to an end. It was never about
chasing fame or fortune or celebrity. If I could go one better than the great
Mark Spitz and the seven golds he won at the Munich Olympics in 1972, those
eight medals might do what nothing else could.
They could help to make
real my biggest dream: to elevate swimming's place in the
American sports landscape, and to make it an every-year sport instead of a
once-every-four-years sport. I never set out to be the second Mark Spitz.
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