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If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Michael Phelps

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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
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Michael Fred Phelps II
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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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I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.
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Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.
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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
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Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
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At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think I still want to do this.So I'd decide I'm not quitting.
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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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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.
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I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.
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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
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I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
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Obviously for water safety, you want to learn just to be comfortable in the water that's the main goal. I think the second that you start freaking out and feeling uncomfortable, it's not going to go well.
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I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.
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When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.
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If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.
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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
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Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.
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My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
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