I want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
MICHAEL PHELPSI can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.
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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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I’m so sick of the water.
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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 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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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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My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, ‘I’m an Olympic gold medalist.’
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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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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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’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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.
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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 believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.
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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 won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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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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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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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 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 goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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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 go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go anywhere.
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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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