It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

When I was younger, I would eat everything.

You make the Choice and thereafter that Choice makes you. You create your Dream and thereafter that Dream creates you.

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.