Quotes by Michael Phelps

About Michael Phelps:

Michael Fred Phelps II is an American competition swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.
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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

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

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

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

Michael Phelps

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

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

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

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.

Michael Phelps

I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

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

The more you dream the more you achieve.

Michael Phelps

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

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

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

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

Michael Phelps

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Michael Phelps

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

Michael Phelps

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

Michael Phelps

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameMichael Phelps
  • DescriptionAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
  • AliasesMichael Fred Phelps II
  • BornJune 30, 1985
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSwimmer; Sportsperson