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Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.

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.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.

It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.