I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.