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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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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
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Michael Fred Phelps II
The Baltimore Bullet
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Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.
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My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.
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If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.
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You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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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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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 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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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.
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[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.
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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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When you use your imagination anything can happen.
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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 want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
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If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
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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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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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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.
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