My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
MICHAEL PHELPSI can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go anywhere.
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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 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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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 feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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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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I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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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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I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything crazy.
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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 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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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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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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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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