Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.
MICHAEL PHELPSI try to separate my personal life from swimming.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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 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.
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I think everybody pees in the pool. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
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I haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.
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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.
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I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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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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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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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 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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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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.
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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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