I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.