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 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 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
MICHAEL PHELPSI haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.
MICHAEL PHELPSI have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.
MICHAEL PHELPSI can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
MICHAEL PHELPSPeople say to me, ‘You’re so lucky. You get to see the world.’ But I don’t. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That’s it.
MICHAEL PHELPSI am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
MICHAEL PHELPSI feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
MICHAEL PHELPSMy mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
MICHAEL PHELPSI want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSFor 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
MICHAEL PHELPSI always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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