Michael Phelps Quotes

• Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination.

  Michael Phelps

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• You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

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

  Michael Phelps

• Why is it such a big deal what I’m swimming?

  Michael Phelps

• This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

  Michael Phelps

• There were times I wouldn’t come to practice, because it didn’t excite me. It wasn’t interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.

  Michael Phelps

• The more you dream the more you achieve.

  Michael Phelps

• 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.

  Michael Phelps

• 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

• Once I’m already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It’s like a giant box. It’s like the boy in a bubble.

  Michael Phelps

• Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.

  Michael Phelps

• My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

  Michael Phelps

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

  Michael Phelps

• If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

  Michael Phelps

• If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it’s a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I’m going to be happy.

  Michael Phelps

• I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.

  Michael Phelps

• I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.

  Michael Phelps

•  I’m so sick of the water.

  Michael Phelps

• I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.

  Michael Phelps

• I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

  Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps (43)

Birth:	30th June, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Swimmer

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• 1940 - Sue Grafton
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Deaths

• 1986 - Wallis Simpson
• 1980 - Alejo Carpentier
• 1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1976 - Mark Tobey
• 1993 - Oliver Tambo