It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.

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.

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

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.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.

Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.