240 Quotes by Michael Phelps

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

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

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.

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits,

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.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

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.

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.

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.