I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

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

I swam my brains out.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

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

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.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.