Forbes Carlile (3 June 1921 – 2 August 2016): A Personal Tribute From Shane Gould
"What a man, curmudgeonly, insightful, fervid, and the ultimate swimming geek! Forbes was the right coach for me, he gave me what I needed; his knowledge, structure, feedback and generalised numerical data. I didn’t need inspirational slogans, bullying, minutiae diagnostics"

By Shane Gould
"The end of life is so final, I'm so glad I went to see Forbes as often as I did in his later life and see Milt [Nelms] and he engaged in swim talk.