The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

I swam my brains out.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.