I want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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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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I think everybody pees in the pool. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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I’m so sick of the water.
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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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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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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 believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.
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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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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 can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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