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

I swam my brains out.

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.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.