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People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.

Michael Phelps

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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
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Baltimore
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Michael Fred Phelps II
The Baltimore Bullet
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Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
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It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.
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If you say can't you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.
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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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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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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
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When you use your imagination anything can happen.
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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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Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.
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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 have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
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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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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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