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"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils."
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"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
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"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
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"Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment."
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"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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"My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick."
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"I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different."
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"I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming."
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"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."
Pretty
"My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'"
People
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Dream
"Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'"
Existence
"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it."
Time
"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along."
Change
"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy."
Friendship
"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."
Being
"I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything."
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