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I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

I once saved someone from drowning.

After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.