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

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.

I swam my brains out.

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.

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.

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

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic