I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Every day is different and every day brings something more exciting.

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.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

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

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.