I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.