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.
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.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.
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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven’t done anything crazy.
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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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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 have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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There 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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I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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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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Every sponsor I’ve had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
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I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.
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For 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.
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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 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.
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