If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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.
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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 wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
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I think everybody pees in the pool. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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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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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything crazy.
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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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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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I want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
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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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Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.
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I eat pretty much whatever I want. I don’t have a strict diet. It’s all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can.
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I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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I’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
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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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I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go anywhere.
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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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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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I believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.
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I’m so sick of the water.
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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future.
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