I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

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 treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

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

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