Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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 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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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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 am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
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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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My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
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Growing up in high school, I wasn’t hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up.
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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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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 try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don’t have a strict diet. It’s all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can.
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I usually try to eat lot of calories. With so many events, it is important to sustain a high level of energy through the entire meet. I usually eat two hours before a meet.
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Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming – being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
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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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