Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there, know that thats usually what the answer is.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Shift your focus from your fears to your dreams. Let the love, passion and utter awesomeness of your dreams guide you through life.

Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.