Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will