I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.

Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.

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

I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.

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

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.