Michael Phelps
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 in three Olympiads. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events, and Olympic medals in individual events for a male. In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record away from fellow American swimmer Mark Spitzfor the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth30 June 1985
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.
I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
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.
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 think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do,
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.
If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.
Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.
Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.
Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.
The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.
I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.