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

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

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

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,

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.

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.

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

She called to lure him out.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

We’re all a little tired.

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.

I wanted to give him another chance,

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

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

I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it’s a pretty decent swim, … I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by...

I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d...

When we have a home crowd like this and the excitement that we have, it carries us a long way, … We knew it was going to be tough. The Aussies weren’t going to roll...

I was really hurting pretty bad the final 75 meters, I was definitely in pain, … My body has been beaten up pretty good in the last three months.

I’ve always been fortunate in that I’ve been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I’m lucky to be that way.

When the Australians walked out, the crowd went nuts, and when we walked out, the crowd went even more nuts. I can’t describe how amazing that was. Three thousand people were here rooting for the...

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.