A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

I'm just an all-around happy girl who loves everything about her life.

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.

I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.

Our world is structured in such a way that you will be ignorant and unaware of the fact that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left only with very little life and time.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

I had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.