I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

‎"You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

It's easy to clean up when you got money.

But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.