Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
MICHAEL PHELPSAny Olympic sport is great to watch.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
MICHAEL PHELPSOnce I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
MICHAEL PHELPSMy mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
MICHAEL PHELPSThere were times I wouldn’t come to practice, because it didn’t excite me. It wasn’t interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
MICHAEL PHELPSEvery day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait, this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’
MICHAEL PHELPSYou can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
MICHAEL PHELPSI learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
MICHAEL PHELPSThe more you dream the more you achieve.
MICHAEL PHELPSI think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.
MICHAEL PHELPSI think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it’s kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
MICHAEL PHELPSIf you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
MICHAEL PHELPSI think everybody pees in the pool. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
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