I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSOnce 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.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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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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I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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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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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 want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
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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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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 like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that’s really how I’ve always lived my life.
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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 try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it’s a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I’m going to be happy.
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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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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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