"This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence."

"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now."

"It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening."

"I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world."

"We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair."

"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."

"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony."