I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSI think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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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 used to always go to church on holidays, but I don’t go much any more.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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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I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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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 still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.
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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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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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This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
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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 am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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It doesn’t matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your – whatever you excel at, you’re there to take care of the job that you have to do.
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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 always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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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’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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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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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
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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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
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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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