“It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour a...” — Mark Warkentin Quote

“It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.”

“Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.”

“I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.”

“Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.”

“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”

“I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.”