I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

There's a difference between over-training and over-exercising. Over-training can be you're trying to do something at high performance, but when you're over-exercising it just means that you don't have a life. And there are obviously people who go to that extreme.

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did.