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

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 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.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Dance fotografers/videografers (ph=f) capture a moment in movement

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

Be the best you.

If a guy likes you, he will not just fight for you. He will also fight the rest of the guys who were hoping to take his place.

It means, Day, that you're dying.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!