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

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

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.

I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.

I got the stamina. I can close.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.