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I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

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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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Like
Swimming
Anywhere
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Anything
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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 won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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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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