I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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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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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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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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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.
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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 have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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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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I know it won’t be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that’s your decision, not mine. I’m going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
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I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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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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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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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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