Johnny Weissmuller Quotes

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

Johnny Weissmuller

• Lost

I need freedom to be happy.

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• Happy
• Freedom

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Johnny Weissmuller

• Up
• Marriage

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

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• Guy

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

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• Good
• Business
• Picture

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

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• People

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

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• Up
• Work
• Real

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

Johnny Weissmuller

• Up
• Water
• Waves

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

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• Pretty

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

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• People
• Long
• Violence

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Johnny Weissmuller

• Time
• Good
• Long

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

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• Career

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

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• Tree

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

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• High
• Boy

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Johnny Weissmuller

Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?

Johnny Weissmuller

Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.

Johnny Weissmuller