I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

I'm so sick of the water.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.