Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

I'm not homophobic at all and I have a lot of gay friends.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.