If You Want To Be The Best

I Don't Want To Be The Next Mark Spitz; I Want To Be The First Michael Phelps

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.

Being Compared To Ian Thorpe, That Could Be One Of The Greatest Compliments You Could Ever Get In Swimming - Being Compared To Him And Mark Spitz.

With Social Media, So Many People Have Anxiety And Depression Because Of It. Of Course Technology Is Somewhat Good, But It Can Present So Many Issues; More And More We're Seeing What That's Causing, And It's Even Leading To Deaths. I Just Got Finished Doing A Documentary Called Anx With Children Talking About Anxiety And Recognizing Their Emotions And Understanding Them Better. We Need To Let Kids Know It's Ok To Not Be Ok. And We Need To Help Them Be Comfortable Talking About It.

I Would Visualize The Best- And Worst-case Scenarios. Whether I Get Disqualified Or My Goggles Fill Up With Water Or I Lose My Goggles Or I Come In Last, I'm Ready For Anything.