I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.