When the negative thoughts come, learn to replace them with positive ones. Keep trying and it will happen. What you believe, you can, with effort and persistence, achieve. Dream a dream, believe in that dream, work towards achieving it and live the dream. Anything worth having is worth working to achieve.
Talent is important, but there are many talented swimmers who don t make it to the top.
Successful people are not afraid to fail. They have the ability to accept their failures and continue on, knowing that failure is a natural consequence of trying. The law of failure is one of the most powerful of all the success laws because you only really fail when you quit trying. Copyright 1998-1999 American Swimming Coaches Association.