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It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.

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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The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.
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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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My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.
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I feel like Aaron brings out the best in 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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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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If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
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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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Things can change in the blink of an eye!
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Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.
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I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.
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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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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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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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If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
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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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I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.
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Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.
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Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself
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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
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