I like to be busy and fight many times a year and showcase all my potentials.
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
Those who know the sport of swimming understand that the grueling practices that fill a pre-Olympic winter lay the base for any success that might come later in the Games, especially if one has it in mind to swim an astonishing eight events.
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
I saw the sunset forty-four times!
Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam.
If there was a public function without Koch, it meant only that he was at the other public function, going on simultaneously.
Commenting on the New York Mayor's penchant for seeking publicity:
Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?