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" Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool. "

Michael Phelps

Happy

Think

School

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Michael Phelps

Honor

Time

" I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers. "

" There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That's something I'd like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle. "

" I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past. "

Michael Phelps

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Fast

" I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time. "

" My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' "

" For the millionth time, I'm retired. I keep saying it, and people keep answering, 'Well, maybe he doesn't mean it this time.' But I do. "

" I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life. "

" 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. "

" If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do. "

" 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. "

" I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong. "

" I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be. "

" I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day. "

" I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more. "

Michael Phelps

Always

Used

" I got the stamina. I can close. "

" 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. "

" I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious. "

" 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. "

" It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening. "

" Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name. "

Michael Phelps

Call

Friends

" I want to retire how I want to retire - and I have a great opportunity to do that. "

" I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy. "

" I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal. "

" I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day. "

" For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That's it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was. "

" Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.' "

Michael Phelps

Wait

Day

" 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. "

" Growing up in high school, I wasn't hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up. "