Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.