If you’re a man at night, you’ve got to be a man in the morning.
Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.
Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah
No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.
I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.
These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.
It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's ‘jee-ah.’ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that ‘J.’ And then the ‘A-H’ kinda just flows.
Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.
My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'
I love swimming because racing.
Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.
I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.
Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.
Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!
I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.
I hate to lose. I like winning.
I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.
Going out to look for a date, I don't have to do that. They come to me.
