Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Without goals, training has no direction.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.