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

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

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

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty solid relay, so we thought we could take a crack at the U.S. Open record tonight. We're all a little tired, but that's fifth-fastest American relay ever, so it's not a bad time. We ended tonight on a great note.