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My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

I think, in the United States, we talk about race as a black and white issue... We're generally talking about it as if it's a binary equation whereas, in fact, there's more than two races and, in fact, those races blend together. There are a lot of different ways that people identify.

I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

My job is to give 100 per cent so that I can walk away completely satisfied with the race I put together irrespective of placings.

If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.

For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

I'm good at separating my personal life from racing. When I'm at track, it's race time; when I'm away from it, other than the fact I'm training to be fit for it, there is nothing at home that makes me even want to think about racing. I just want to enjoy my life, and by the time the next race comes around, I'm ready and excited for it.

I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

While I don't face the same barriers as so many people in our country, I have seen love that transcends borders, race, and country of origin.

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I've been training for a marathon my whole life.

You have got to act on instinct; you've got to ride from your heart and let that performer come out. You can't over-think it too much because if you're thinking, the race is already over.

I've always been very competitive - that runs in our family. I'd always try to beat my brother. I'd race the boys and wanted to beat them. They toughened me up. They didn't treat me like a girl.

Any race, I'm always going for the top step on the podium.