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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Michael Phelps

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  Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.

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  For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That’s it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.

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  I got the stamina. I can close.

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  I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

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  Once I’m already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It’s like a giant box. It’s like the boy in a bubble.

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  There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That’s something I’d like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle.

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  I haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.

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  I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don’t have a strict diet. It’s all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can.

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  You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

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  I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.

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  I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

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  For the millionth time, I’m retired. I keep saying it, and people keep answering, ‘Well, maybe he doesn’t mean it this time.’ But I do.

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  I want to continue the sport of swimming. I’m not going to give up until I think it’s reached where I want it to go.

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  Growing up in high school, I wasn’t hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up.

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  People say to me, ‘You’re so lucky. You get to see the world.’ But I don’t. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That’s it.

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  I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.

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