People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

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.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.