This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain 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.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

We are willing to follow leaders only to the extent we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.