I’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSI got the stamina. I can close.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I know it won’t be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that’s your decision, not mine. I’m going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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It doesn’t matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your – whatever you excel at, you’re there to take care of the job that you have to do.
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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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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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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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 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 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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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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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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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’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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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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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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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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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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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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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 go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go anywhere.
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I am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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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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