Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
MICHAEL PHELPSOnce I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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There were times I wouldn’t come to practice, because it didn’t excite me. It wasn’t interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
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I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That’s something I’d like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle.
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I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go anywhere.
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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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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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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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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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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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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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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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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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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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