Top 26 Johnny Weissmuller Quotes
#1. I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.
Jane Goodall
#2. Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
Johnny Weissmuller
#3. I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.
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#6. When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
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#7. 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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#9. With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
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#10. They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
Fanny Fern
#11. We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.
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#12. The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
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#13. How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
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#14. No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
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#15. 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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#16. Fun for me is to take what I learn and teach others in a way that is accessible and applicable in their own lives.
Daphne Oz
#18. Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.
Johnny Weissmuller
#20. Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.
John Battelle
#21. I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#23. I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.
Johnny Weissmuller
#24. Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.
Wes Fesler
#25. All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
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