Michael Phelps Quotes

• I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go… anywhere.

  Michael Phelps

• 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.

  Michael Phelps

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

  Michael Phelps

• I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

  Michael Phelps

• 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.

  Michael Phelps

• 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.

  Michael Phelps

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

  Michael Phelps

• I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

  Michael Phelps

• I know it won’t be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that’s your decision, not mine. I’m going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

  Michael Phelps

• 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.

  Michael Phelps

• 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.

  Michael Phelps

• I got the stamina. I can close.

  Michael Phelps

• I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.

  Michael Phelps

• I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.

  Michael Phelps

• I believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.

  Michael Phelps

• I am 26 and, and I don’t recover as fast as I have in the past.

  Michael Phelps

• I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

  Michael Phelps

• Every day after I wake up, I think, ‘Wait… this can’t be real; I’m still going to wake up.’

  Michael Phelps

• 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

Michael Phelps (43)

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

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Today's Anniversary - 15th November

Births

• 1887 - Marianne Moore
• 1939 - Yaphet Kotto
• 1954 - Aleksander Kwasniewski
• 1953 - Alexander O'Neal
• 1972 - Jonny Lee Miller

Deaths

• 1996 - Alger Hiss
• 1958 - Tyrone Power
• 1998 - Stokely Carmichael
• 1950 - Agnes Repplier
• 1982 - Vinoba Bhave