I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

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

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

I see my goals as personal and I always have. That's just been how I've worked.