Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

I'm pretty confident.

The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.