Adam Peaty

“I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.”

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

“This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.”

“I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.”

“I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.”

“Biceps for show, triceps for go.”

“You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.”

“Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it's paid off.”

“Mum tries to make every race that she can.”

“Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.”

“I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.”

“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.”

“Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall.”

“I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.”

“I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.”

“There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.”

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

“Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.”

“I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.”