If I Didn't Swim My Best, I'd

Once I'm Already In My Room, I Still Have To Open A Door To Get Into My Bed. It's Like A Giant Box. It's Like The Boy In A Bubble.

If You Look At Me, Basically My Whole Entire Life I've Been Around Water. So When You Look At A Stat Like, "if You Leave The Faucet Running For Two Minutes While You Brush Your Teeth You Waste Four Gallons Of Water," To Me That's Mind-blowing. There Are So Many People That Don't Even Have Access To Clean Water, And People Leave Their Faucets Running. For Me It Was Something That Fit With Things That I Believe In.

When I Race, I Don't Think About It; It Just Happens.

This Is My 20th Year In The Sport. I've Known Swimming And That's It. I Don't Want To Swim Past Age 30; If I Continue After This Olympics, And Come Back In 2016, I'll Be 31. I'm Looking Forward To Being Able To See The Other Side Of The Fence.

I Think Sometimes I Guess You See Records, Say You Want To Get There And Use That As Motivation. In A Way, It's Kind Of Cool If There Is A Possibility To Rewrite History And Be Up There With The Greats Of Olympic History.