Obviously for water safety, you want to learn just to be comfortable in the water; that's the main goal. I think the second that you start freaking out and feeling uncomfortable, it's not going to go well.

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.

It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

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."

Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.

The more you dream the more you achieve.