I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I swam my brains out.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

alone but trying to survive alone.

Women are complicated. We all know that.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.