I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.

I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.

The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.

Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.

You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.