Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Without goals, training has no direction.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

dont fall for things that u desire because mostly that fall always break

And I have seen people on Facebook with their real names and own pictures but fake personalities

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.