Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a book called "the power of having a spine" - #metaphor

Push until you can push no more, and then, push some more.

If we have a chance coming to the Top and no have luck For stay there, the way down can be very Scary for the change in our Life style.

It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why rain's my choice.

I'm not a big sports fan.

If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

I was a coward on instinct.