I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.