To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.