McKenzie: Hey, maybe you should write a book. Tom: What? McKenzie: Well, you know, Henry Miller said the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature. Tom: That guy had a lot more sex than me.
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.
I resent all organised religions.
The emotions of the game do not change.
I do not say anything from jealousy.
What is important is to win.
This is a strange game.
We play a violent sport.
All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.
I didn't expect to be dropped by England.
I'm so sick of the water.
There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
Tom Brokaw was never young.
The sharp employ the sharp.
I think swimming's hard because I can't float.
I like poems that are little games.
I overcame size with mechanics.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.
Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
