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 PHELPSI 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.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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I got the stamina. I can close.
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
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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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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.
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I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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It’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening.
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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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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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I 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.
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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.
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If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it’s a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I’m going to be happy.
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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 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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