I Have Reached A Place In My

I Have Had Extreme Ups And Downs. The Biggest Thing I Learned After I Broke My Wrist Is To Never Give Up. Nothing In Life Will Ever Come Easy. It Depends On How You Deal With Those Obstacles And How You Overcome Those Obstacles. If You Can Overcome Them, You're A Stronger Person. If You Make Mistakes Along The Way, As Long As You Never Make That Same Mistake Again, You're A Successful Person.

This Is My 20th Year In The Sport. I've Known Swimming And That's It. I Don't Want To Swim Past Age 30; If I Continue After This Olympics, And Come Back In 2016, I'll Be 31. I'm Looking Forward To Being Able To See The Other Side Of The Fence.

People Say To Me, 'you're So Lucky. You Get To See The World.' But I Don't. I Go To The Hotel And To The Pools And Back Again. That's It.

It's The Olympics. If You Can't Get Up To Swim Early In The Morning, Don't Go.

I'm Pretty Lazy. My Wife Always Says, "you're The Laziest, Most Successful Olympian I've Ever Seen." How Does That Make Sense? Honestly, If I Have Downtime, I'm Really, Really Good At Not Doing Anything.