I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks. I’m just going to feed off this the rest of the meet because what I swam tonight was pretty fast...

I’ve been training really hard this year, more than any other year. My mind was set on it, and after the first one, I just kept feeding off of it.

We had our minds set on it all year. I’m glad I could go out and accomplish these goals.

I’m just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you’re usually not going to get it.

The biggest thing I’ll miss is being part of the team.

It put me into a better racing dynamic.

Hopefully how the US did tonight will hype up everyone else and it will improve for tomorrow and Sunday. We’ll see what happens.

It is perfect and I feel excited. It is my first world record in this championship. What is special is the atmosphere here is so good and I like the pool. The competition is hard...

It was my last race, and I just wanted to give everything I had because there wasn’t another race left.

With the first world record, I was so shocked that I didn’t think it had really happened. I’ve thought about breaking world records before, but [Sunday night] I was just going out there, racing tough...

I knew he was here tonight. I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks.

Traveling over here, it was tough getting used to the time change. Usually, the first day is always the hardest for me to get used to. I just brushed it off of last night and...