I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
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 am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.
MICHAEL PHELPSI listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.
MICHAEL PHELPSI want to retire how I want to retire – and I have a great opportunity to do that.
MICHAEL PHELPSI’ll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
MICHAEL PHELPSI feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
MICHAEL PHELPSAny Olympic sport is great to watch.
MICHAEL PHELPSI still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.
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 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSI got the stamina. I can close.
MICHAEL PHELPSYou can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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 PHELPSI 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.
MICHAEL PHELPSThere were times I wouldn’t come to practice, because it didn’t excite me. It wasn’t interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
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