Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.
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.
More Michael Phelps Quotes
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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 feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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It’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening.
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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’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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The more you dream the more you achieve.
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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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I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
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I usually try to eat lot of calories. With so many events, it is important to sustain a high level of energy through the entire meet. I usually eat two hours before a meet.
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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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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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I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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I got the stamina. I can close.
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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 have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.
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