I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it’s kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
MICHAEL PHELPSI have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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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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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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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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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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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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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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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don’t go much any more.
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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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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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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 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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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