He just got out of the 100m fly, so I had a little advantage. But you know he’s going to put something together.

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, … In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a...

Bob and I have gotten into it a number, number of times.

Folks between the ages of 25 and 54, households with children, households with a median income of $73,000, that’s our target demographic.

I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.

I’m a little worried about the work. It’s a big step up from high school.

In 2003, I was in the best shape that I’ve ever been in my entire life. Last summer was something that I’d always dreamt of, … This doesn’t even compare to those meets. It’s almost...

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

A newspaper with shorter stories, more stories, and enormous emphasis on local news which is the news people don’t get.

We wanted to split our relays up and see what would happen, … It was a good way to end the meet.

Bob has clearly stated that he’s dropping the bomb on me, … Hopefully we can change a few things in the upcoming year and improve on this.

We wanted to try something new to get more attention from the average Joe. Hopefully, everyone likes it and it will attract new fans to the sport.

I’m satisfied in a way because it was an eye-opener,

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future.

People really expect to get news and information for free. They get it free on TV, they get it free on the web, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t get it free in the newspaper.

She called to lure him out.

It’s great for us coming off an Olympics to have a team like this.

It’s kind of a weird change, coming from Baltimore to Ann Arbor because its so much smaller. I like bigger towns better.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

With everything that’s been going on, it’s probably a decent swim for right now.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

That’s an indication I’m sort of starting to fade.

I don’t like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn’t going anywhere.

The things I am doing right now I have dreamt about my whole life,

He got remarried and went on his way and did his thing and we did our thing.

I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl’s requesting a signed photo of...

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.

We’re all a little tired.

I wanted to give him another chance,

A lot of new obstacles are coming, a lot of new feelings are coming, … I’m just taking it for what it is and learning from the mistakes I had this year.

This is the first medal I’ve ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can’t explain it.

Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.

That’s the most pain I’ve ever been in after a 200. It’s exhaustion more than anything.

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be...

I knew it would take a world record to win this race, … He was better prepared than I was for this race. The Texas guys have awesome starts and turns — two things I...

It was tough. I wasn’t able to get out with the guys, … I was in their wake. I was just destroyed.

Every day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait… this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming – to give it some personality.

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We’ll take that for right now.

The last 20 meters weren’t very good, they didn’t feel good,

It takes a lot more out of you racing in the finals. I think it’s definitely a lot different from the trials, a whole lot more emotionally draining.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, ‘I’m an Olympic gold medallist.

If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

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.

When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty...

We wanted to secure the top spot, we wanted to be safe on the relay takeoffs, … The biggest thing is we wanted to give those guys tonight the middle lane. We expect a fast...

This was a dream come true for me, … Ever since I was a little kid, I was dreaming of this. But when I saw Erik over there, it was even more incredible.

You always know he’s going to put something together, … He’s got some speed, but we were able to hang on.