If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.

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 are what we are. If you are different, it's because you are special. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.