I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

I'm pretty confident.

The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it

Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.