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

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

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 know there's life after the Olympics.

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.

Be happy, not contented.

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy.Jade Gentry (Polishing Jade)

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.