When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

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

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

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'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.