Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting."

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

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.