Michael Phelps

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

Michael Phelps

I’m kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it’s like second nature.

Michael Phelps

If you’re not on your ‘A’ game in our workouts every day, you’re going to get absolutely smoked.

Michael Phelps

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

Michael Phelps

When I’m focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I’m gonna get there.

Michael Phelps

Any Olympic sport is great to watch.

Michael Phelps

Before, it came easy for me. I don’t have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.

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

Eat, sleep and swim, that’s all I can do.

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