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“We can either pick our challenges in life, or life will pick them for us.”
― Michael Loynd

“When Annetts reflected on the childhood leg braces that drove her to try swimming, she said, "My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing that could have come to me. Without it I should have missed the grim struggke upward and the reward that waited at the end of it all.”
― Michael Loynd, The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold