I know there's life after the Olympics.

I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

How can the sky be the limit if there are footsteps on the moon?

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.