If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

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.

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.

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

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

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

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.