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The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.
— Michael Phelps
Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.
— Michael Phelps
When you use your imagination anything can happen.
— Michael Phelps
If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.
— Michael Phelps
I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up
— Michael Phelps
I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.
— Michael Phelps
I can't remember the last day I didn't train.
— Michael Phelps
I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way
— Michael Phelps
I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.
— Usain Bolt
We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.
— Michael Phelps
I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
— Michael Phelps
I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.
— Michael Phelps
I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.
— Michael Phelps
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.
— Michael Phelps
I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.
— Michael Phelps
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
— Michael Phelps
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
— Michael Phelps
You can make a million mistakes, just not the same one twice.
— Michael Phelps
I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
— Michael Phelps
Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.
— Michael Phelps
I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.
— Michael Phelps
Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.
— Michael Phelps
I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.
— Michael Phelps
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
— Michael Phelps
I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.
— Michael Phelps
When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.
— Michael Phelps
Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.
— Michael Phelps
Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
— Michael Phelps
I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
— Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.
— Reba McEntire
Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.
— Michael Phelps
I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.
— Michael Phelps
Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
— Michael Phelps
You can't put a limit anything.
— Michael Phelps
I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go ... anywhere.
— Michael Phelps
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work ... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.
— Michael Phelps
The more you dream the more you achieve.
— Michael Phelps
I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.
— Gabby Douglas
Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
— Michael Phelps
I'm so sick of the water.
— Michael Phelps
no goal is too high if you put your mind to it.
— Michael Phelps
I finished my career the way I wanted to.
— Michael Phelps
Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.
— Michael Phelps
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
— Michael Phelps
Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.
— Michael Phelps
It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.
— Michael Phelps
Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.
— Michael Phelps
Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do,
— Michael Phelps
Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.
— Michael Phelps
It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.
— Michael Phelps
I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.
— Michael Phelps
I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.
— Michael Phelps
But a hero should be somebody who can lift up other people with his courage and dedication.
— Michael Phelps
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
[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.
— Michael Phelps
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
We're all a little tired.
— Michael Phelps
Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.
— Michael Phelps
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
— Michael Phelps
I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me
— Michael Phelps
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.
— Michael Phelps
If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.
— Michael Phelps
My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.
— Michael Phelps
My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
— Michael Phelps
Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait ... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'
— Michael Phelps
This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.
— Michael Phelps
The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.
— Michael Phelps
Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?
— Michael Phelps
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.
— Michael Phelps
I got the stamina. I can close.
— Michael Phelps
Things can change in the blink of an eye!
— Michael Phelps