I took my weight training to a new level.

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.