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

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.

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.

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.

Don’t sit at home and wait for mango tree to bring mangoes to you wherever you are. It won’t happen. If you are truly hungry for change, go out of your comfort zone and change the world.

Don't judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of his character or size of his heart.

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

I'm the most chill person I know...I'm happy with myself...I'm not perfect, but I'm cool with that.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

Growing a moustache wouldn't really coordinate with the group dynamics.