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?

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.

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.

Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse