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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

Michael Phelps

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Competition Focus Help Listening Music Myself
I want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Greatness Myself Opportunity Retirement
I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Best Control Day Feeling Goodness Myself Performance
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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Country Freedom Greatness Thinking World
The more you dream the more you achieve.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Achievement Dreams Inspirational One Liner
I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Kind Man Myself
I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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Myself Remember Training
I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Myself Normal Water
I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Impossible Inspirational Myself Possible
I believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Believe God Myself Religious
I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Children Life Myself Work
I’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Muscle Myself Weight
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.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Compare Compliment Greatness Oneself
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 PHELPS

Myself Reach Sports Swimming
I’m so sick of the water.
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Myself Sick Water
I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go anywhere.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Competition Myself
I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
MICHAEL PHELPS

History Impossible Myself Prediction
Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Myself Retirement
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.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Life Myself Normal Person Thinking
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.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Myself Olympics Sports Swimming
For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That’s it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Children Identity Myself Person Talent
For the millionth time, I’m retired. I keep saying it, and people keep answering, ‘Well, maybe he doesn’t mean it this time.’ But I do.
MICHAEL PHELPS

End Myself Retirement Time
I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don’t go much any more.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Holiday Myself Religious
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.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Boy Myself Open Room
I 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 PHELPS

Fast Learning Myself Reference Show
I 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 PHELPS

Comfortable Face Feeling Myself Sports Thinking Water
You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Dreams Inspirational Limitation Motivational

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