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

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I think he can swim faster than at our trials and, if he does that, it certainly makes him a medal contender in the 400m.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.