If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
MICHAEL PHELPSI live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything crazy.
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I 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.
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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 used to always go to church on holidays, but I don’t go much any more.
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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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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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If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it’s a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I’m going to be happy.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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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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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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’m so sick of the water.
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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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I’ve never lifted a single weight in my life.
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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.
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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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