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I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Michael Phelps

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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
Swimmer
Baltimore
Maryland
Michael Fred Phelps II
The Baltimore Bullet
Flying Fish
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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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I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.
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So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.
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When you use your imagination anything can happen.
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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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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.
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Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.
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If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.
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The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.
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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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I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.
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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 feel like Aaron brings out the best in me
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Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.
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I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.
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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 try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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We're all a little tired.
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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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