Editing Mark Spitz (section)

===Famous moustache during Olympics===
In an era when other swimmers, male and female, were shaving body hair, he swam with a moustache. When asked why he initially grew one, he stated: "I grew the moustache because a coach in college said I couldn't grow one."<ref name="10Questions"/> Spitz said he originally grew the moustache as a form of rebellion against the clean-cut look imposed on him in college. "It took a long time to grow," he said.  It took four months to grow, but Spitz was proud of it, and decided the moustache was a "good-luck piece".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.mercurynews.com/pizarro/2007/11/18/mark-spitz-reveals-the-story-behind-his-mustache/ |title=Mark Spitz reveals the story behind his mustache, Around Town |publisher=Blogs.mercurynews.com |date=November 18, 2007 |access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012012254/http://blogs.mercurynews.com/pizarro/2007/11/18/mark-spitz-reveals-the-story-behind-his-mustache/ |archive-date=October 12, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> 

Spitz is quoted as saying, "When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it—and everybody was talking about it—that I decided to keep it. I had some fun with a Russian coach who asked me if my moustache slowed me down. I said, 'No, as a matter of fact, it deflects water away from my mouth, allows my rear end to rise and make me bullet-shaped in the water, and that's what had allowed me to swim so great.'
According to a ''Sports Illustrated'' article, on February 14, 1988, after talking about shaving off his moustache for a year, he finally did. "He looked great with it, don't get me wrong," explained his wife Suzy, "but he looks so handsome without it."<ref>{{cite news| title=Catching up with Mark Spitz | url= http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/07/01/spitz.cuw/index.html?eref=si_topstories | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091001014317/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/07/01/spitz.cuw/index.html?eref=si_topstories | url-status= dead | archive-date= October 1, 2009 |work=CNN| date=July 21, 2008 | access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref>

When he was asked why he shaved it off, he responded: "Well, one, I'm not swimming anymore; two, it started to turn gray; and three, my wife had never seen me, nor my family, without the moustache ...  I'm happy [without it]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/sports/mark-spitz-talks-about-his-mustache-and-michael-phelps-1.881390|title=Mark Spitz talks about his mustache (and Michael Phelps) |publisher=newsday.com|author=Dickstein, Max J. |date=July 15, 2008}}</ref>  He also commented on his moustache in a live, in-studio interview with [[KCRA]] host Mike TeSelle on June 14, 2008, with Spitz stating that he no longer maintains his iconic moustache because it had become "too gray".