I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.