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.

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

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.

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

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

I had a dream about you the other day. I woke up and realized it was just a dream.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.