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If you say can't you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.

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 try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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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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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 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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When you use your imagination anything can happen.
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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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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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It's tough to put into words right now, but I finished my career how I wanted to. Through the ups and downs of my career I've still been able to do everything that I've ever wanted to accomplish.
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I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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 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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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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If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
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Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.
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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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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 want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
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I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.
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Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.
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