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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More Michael Phelps Quotes
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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 have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.
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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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I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
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I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that’s really how I’ve always lived my life.
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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’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything crazy.
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I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
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Growing 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.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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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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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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