To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.