I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
MICHAEL PHELPSThere were times I wouldn’t come to practice, because it didn’t excite me. It wasn’t interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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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 got the stamina. I can close.
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I’m so sick of 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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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 think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it’s kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
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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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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 have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything crazy.
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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 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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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future.
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