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I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

Michael Phelps

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.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Children Drowning Lifestyle Safety Teaching Water
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 PHELPS

Best Crazy Drive Myself Swimming
My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
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Comfortable Feeling Mom Myself Safety Water
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Best Inspirational People Willing Yourself
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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History Motivation Myself Olympics Possible Record Thinking
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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Life Myself Normal Person Thinking
I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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History Impossible Myself Prediction
People 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.
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Hotel Luck Myself People Pool
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.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Compare Compliment Greatness Oneself
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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Calories Diet Myself Possible Strict System
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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Change Generation Myself Success Young
I’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
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Children Life Myself Work
I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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Excitement Myself Water
Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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Money Myself Personality
I haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Myself Pools River Swimming Try
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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Disappointment Gold Happiness Myself People

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