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I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.
All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation.
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.
I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.
My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.
There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.
I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.
With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.
My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.
I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.
I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.
I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.
I think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the good in people.
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
I'm at a point where I'm ready to settle down. Every girl I meet, though, something wrong happens, and I end up getting hurt.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.
When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.
You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.
Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
I think that is why I do so many different things with the hair, the grills, the crazy shoes.It's just my personality coming out there.
I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.
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.
Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.
I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.
I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.
I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.
I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.
I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'
I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."
There's people out there that are like, 'Oh my God, I want to have your kid. I want to marry you.' People that I've never even met. That's sweet. It's funny.
When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.
After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.
I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.
I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.
Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.
No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.
It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's ‘jee-ah.’ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that ‘J.’ And then the ‘A-H’ kinda just flows.
No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I do, no matter what event I'm at, I always find a way to train. It's just something that I love to do.
My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'
Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.