I know that I do deserve good things.

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

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!

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.

Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

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

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.