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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

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
Swimming
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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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If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.
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If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.
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I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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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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If you say can't you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.
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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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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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My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.
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I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.
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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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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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I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.
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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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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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The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.
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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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Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.
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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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We're all a little tired.
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