The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

Our time on Earth is already short enough. For me, it's like every single day I try to be as happy as I can. It's crazy to think about. We never have enough time. That's always the thing. We always want to do more. So it's about being able to spend time on the things that are most important to you. Life is a lot easier that way, and obviously life is pretty difficult a lot of the time.