When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.

I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

You're never too old to chase your dream.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

X Games, it's an event but it's still ... it's a show. I try to put on the best show possible, ... I'm thrilled. This is awesome.