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.
MICHAEL PHELPSEven 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.
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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
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My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, ‘I’m an Olympic gold medalist.’
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I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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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.
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People say to me, ‘You’re so lucky. You get to see the world.’ But I don’t. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That’s it.
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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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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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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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.
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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future.
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I want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
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I 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.
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I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don’t go much any more.
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