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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.

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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
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Baltimore
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Michael Fred Phelps II
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I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
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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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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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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
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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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It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you excel at, you're there to take care of the job that you have to do.
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Things can change in the blink of an eye!
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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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If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.
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My little son is already like me - my mom has always said I used to bounce off the wall and never stop talking or sit still. I'm starting to see that with him. I guess it's living proof he's part of me.
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I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz I want to be the first Michael Phelps
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I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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 always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night
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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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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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