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

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.

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.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience