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.

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.

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.

Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry

Why do you fight it?" I whisper."Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

I like marriage. I've been married three times.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.

There are no edges to my loving now.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.