The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

If you're good at it, you can win.

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.