Everybody knew that, basically, being a sweeper, it's my role to watch the whole team and dispense directions to everybody.

Basically, they live with us. They are there all day; they just leave at night. I never knew about half brothers or stepbrothers. We all look alike. I always thought we were brothers.

You've just got to keep giving them confidence, saying, look, we're just getting started. We're going to peak at the end, not peak at the beginning.

As soon as we won the Rose game, I felt more confident that we could do this.

He basically led this team for the last 10 years when you think about it. We knew why he came back. It was no secret he wanted to finish his career with a championship.

We swam extremely well this weekend. The Woodlands has an awesome team and we knew we would have a tough time catching them. But we were able to get second and I'm very happy with that.