Dawn Fraser
Dawn Fraser
Dawn Lorraine Fraser, AO, MBEis an Australian freestyle champion swimmer and former politician. She is one of only three swimmers to have won the same Olympic event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth4 September 1937
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
mouth retired sort taste terrible
It wasn't deserved. Because I didn't do the things that they said I'd done. And it was a terrible sort of taste in my mouth ... to have been retired when I wasn't ready.
mind
When I set my mind to do something, I want to come out a winner.
swim mind stronger
I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.
sports past years
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.
sports winning ifs
If you're good at it, you can win.
sports excellence winter-olympics
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
beautiful sports opening-up
It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.
sports inspirational-sports inspirational-life
I've worked hard all my life.
sports training lasts
I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.
upset rivals used
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
wrestling swimming people
I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.
sports parent desire
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
sports hurt thinking
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
sports two world
We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.