It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.