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I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

I want to win medals for myself.

I don't know where my medals are.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.