My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
MICHAEL PHELPSI won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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People say to me, ‘You’re so lucky. You get to see the world.’ But I don’t. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That’s it.
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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 wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
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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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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 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 think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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 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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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’m so sick of the water.
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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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