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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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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 consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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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’m so sick of the water.
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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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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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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
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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 want to continue the sport of swimming. I’m not going to give up until I think it’s reached where I want it to go.
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There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That’s something I’d like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle.
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I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything 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’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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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