I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

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.

The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

I was concerned about them. I mean, it feels good but I was concerned about them.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.