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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
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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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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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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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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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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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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’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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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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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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I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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