Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

I'm still swimming.

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

It's really cool now that we have Twitter and Facebook, and it's cool that people can post their thoughts and stories and just constantly on their timelines.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

Acting is acting.

Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

A lot of the time, we're shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the next season. It's the hardest to feel great in a bikini when it's cold... so I appreciate a swimsuit shoot that's in warm weather.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

The people of Syria deserve the opportunity to build a better future and to live in freedom.

God guides us from within. He does nothing more than that. There is no charm in God shaping us like a potter. We are not earthen wares; we are beings full of consciousness.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

I've never been to a race car race before.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

If you would be holy you must live close to Jesus.

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.