I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Embrace tomfoolery as if it were a rich relative on his deathbed.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

I started out as a Democrat.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

The best way to win is to not need to.