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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.

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
Goal
Whatever
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Thinking
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Practice

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It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.
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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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Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.
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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of 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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I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
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I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
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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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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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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 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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It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.
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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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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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Things can change in the blink of an eye!
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