You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

Our passion is what we have been designed to do so as not to get bored between being born and death.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

One, two, three...let's go shopping!