If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

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

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.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up