I know that I do deserve good things.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

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

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.