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.

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

I finished my career the way I wanted to.

If you look at me, basically my whole entire life I've been around water. So when you look at a stat like, "If you leave the faucet running for two minutes while you brush your teeth you waste four gallons of water," to me that's mind-blowing. There are so many people that don't even have access to clean water, and people leave their faucets running. For me it was something that fit with things that I believe in.