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You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.

It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

I race to win, not to please people.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.