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Quotes by Michael Phelps
- I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.
- 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.
- 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.
- I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
- I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
- If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
- It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.
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