I think the beauty of Catholicism is its consistency through both successes and difficulties. I've counted on my faith to give me strength through both training and competition - but also in school, with my family and everyday life.

When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.

I'm just maintaining the same mindset that I had going into the 2012 Olympics and Olympic trials, which is just, whatever happens, happens.

I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.