A lot of new obstacles are coming, a lot of new feelings are coming, ... I'm just taking it for what it is and learning from the mistakes I had this year. |
A newspaper with shorter stories, more stories, and enormous emphasis on local news which is the news people don't get. |
Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. |
Bob and I have gotten into it a number, number of times. |
Bob has clearly stated that he's dropping the bomb on me, ... Hopefully we can change a few things in the upcoming year and improve on this. |
Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he’s improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do. |
Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.' |
Folks between the ages of 25 and 54, households with children, households with a median income of $73,000, that's our target demographic. |
He got remarried and went on his way and did his thing and we did our thing. |
He just got out of the 100m fly, so I had a little advantage. But you know he's going to put something together. |
I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team. |
I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere. |
I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future. |
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. |
I knew it would take a world record to win this race, ... He was better prepared than I was for this race. The Texas guys have awesome starts and turns -- two things I don't do well. Those are two things I need to improve on before Athens. |