I’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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.
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 PHELPSIt’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening.
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 PHELPSAny Olympic sport is great to watch.
MICHAEL PHELPSGrowing 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
MICHAEL PHELPSEvery day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait, this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’
MICHAEL PHELPSI listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.
MICHAEL PHELPSI got the stamina. I can close.
MICHAEL PHELPSI am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
MICHAEL PHELPSFor 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 PHELPSI haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.
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.
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