Ian Thorpe Race Quotations

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I wouldn't have swum this race if I wasn't satisfied about the decision Craig had made and how he made the decision,

It's a hot field. It's going to be a good race at the Commonwealth Games,

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows