Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

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.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.

I'm so sick of the water.

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

Records are made to be broken.