I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

I swam my brains out.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip.

A library implies an act of faith.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.