If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

The more you dream the more you achieve.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

No, she's been killing me with kindness." She pointed her finger in his face. "There's a difference, and if you didn't have her on a pedestal, you could tell the difference.

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

At the core of every child is an intact human.