From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

You're never too old to chase your dream.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

I go, but I always remember you.

Expect nothing for no more heartbrakes.

A strong and brave heart isn’t enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.

A will finds a way.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

What I'm urging people to do is trust in the sovereignty of God.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.