The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Without goals, training has no direction.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.

This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

Everybody has their own path. I got mine.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Don’t say ‘I can’t,’ say ‘I presently struggle with.’

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd