Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

I’ll take your body, but I want your heart, Maya.

Never try to separate soul-mates

Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)