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

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'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.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Love isn’t something you have to deserve.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.