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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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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 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 have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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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My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
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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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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 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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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 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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