If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.