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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, ‘I’m an Olympic gold medalist.’
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I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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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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I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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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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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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I think everybody pees in the pool. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
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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 want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
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I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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I’m so sick of the water.
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I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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