Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

When I was younger, I would eat everything.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.