You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?

Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.

I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.