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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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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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I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.
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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 usually try to eat lot of calories. With so many events, it is important to sustain a high level of energy through the entire meet. I usually eat two hours before a meet.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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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For the millionth time, I’m retired. I keep saying it, and people keep answering, ‘Well, maybe he doesn’t mean it this time.’ But I do.
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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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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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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 think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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