When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

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

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?

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

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.

Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.