If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

The more you dream the more you achieve.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

Every good deed is a glory to God.

The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on

We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.