My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
MICHAEL PHELPSYou can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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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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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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I think everybody pees in the pool. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
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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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It’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening.
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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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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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I got the stamina. I can close.
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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 consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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I want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
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If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
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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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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming – being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
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