I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.

Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.