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I got the stamina. I can close.

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 go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
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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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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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What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.
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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
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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
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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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If you say can't you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.
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I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.
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It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.
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I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me
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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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Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.
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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 consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.
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When you use your imagination anything can happen.
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And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.
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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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