Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
I want to continue the sport of swimming. I'm not going to give up until I think it's reached where I want it to go.
I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.
I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.
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.
If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
I'm still swimming.
After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.
I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.