Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with the girls in black lace and frilly skirts.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

An angry person is always full of poison.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

It's my job to beat whoever the UFC puts in front of me. I don't really care who it is. Whoever they put in front of me, I will just try to go out and beat them.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.