I don't think we had as much firepower this year. And we had to fight back the whole time, which is tough.

Emily told me after the race that this was the best experience of her life. But that's because of what her performance meant to the team. Everybody made a contribution tonight and either swam their season-best or career-best times.

You can't have anything better than our best swimmer against their best swimmer. And that's what it came down to with everything on the line. It was more of a team effort, but in the end it was one versus one.

Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.

Knowledge is power is time is money.