If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
MICHAEL PHELPSI haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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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 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 can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
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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 have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.
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Every day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait, this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’
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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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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 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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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
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