This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to ha….

Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there….

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it..

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line th….

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there..

When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to….

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly..

There is water in every lane, so it is OK..

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker..

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself..

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy..

I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown ….

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself..

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is tr….

Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay..

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've bee….

The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the strength to do it, the courage to break that lie.….

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows.

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what ….