For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people - and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams - is something that is really special to me.
The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.
Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.