Growing up in high school, I wasn't hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up.

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

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.

It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you excel at, you're there to take care of the job that you have to do.

To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.