Top 90 Michael Phelps Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Swimming is fun. It’s a lot funner than golf.”

— Michael Phelps

52. “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

53. “My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.”

— Michael Phelps

54. “I finished my career the way I wanted to.”

— Michael Phelps

55. “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

56. “I’m so sick of the water.”

— Michael Phelps

57. “I believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.”

— Michael Phelps

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

— Michael Phelps

59. “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

60. “It’s tough to put into words right now, but I finished my career how I wanted to. Through the ups and downs of my career I’ve still been able to do everything that I’ve ever wanted to accomplish.”

— Michael Phelps

61. “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

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

— Michael Phelps

63. “I see my goals as personal and I always have. That’s just been how I’ve worked.”

— Michael Phelps

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

— Michael Phelps

65. “It’s cool just because I’ve had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it’s finally happening.”

— Michael Phelps

66. “You can make a million mistakes, just not the same one twice.”

— Michael Phelps

67. “The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.”

— Michael Phelps

68. “I don’t have a strict diet. It’s all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.”

— Michael Phelps

69. “I’ve always been fortunate in that I’ve been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I’m lucky to be that way.”

— Michael Phelps

70. “Once I retire, I’m retiring. I’m done.”

— Michael Phelps

71. “One thing with me, and every goal I’ve had – – in the sport of swimming, my mother didn’t know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.”

— Michael Phelps

72. “I grew up around the pool with my sisters. Both of my sisters swam. I was always there. So I thought, why not? My mom put us in the water for water safety, so we were comfortable in the water in case anything ever happened. I learned that way, and started liking it more and more.”

— Michael Phelps

73. “I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.”

— Michael Phelps

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

— Michael Phelps

75. “I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me.”

— Michael Phelps

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I’ve learned to get a grip and take care of myself.”

— Michael Phelps

80. “So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.”

— Michael Phelps

81. “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

82. “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

83. “I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.”

— Michael Phelps

84. “I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.”

— Michael Phelps

85. “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

86. “I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.”

— Michael Phelps

87. “I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal.”

— Michael Phelps

88. “This is the first medal I’ve ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can’t explain it.”

— Michael Phelps

89. “I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.”

— Michael Phelps

90. “We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We’ll take that for right now.”

— Michael Phelps

91. “There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl’s requesting a signed photo of me.”

— Michael Phelps

92. “My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.”

— Michael Phelps

93. “You’re tired; you feel you can’t move; you’re truly hurting. That’s when he would throw down especially hard sets.”

— Michael Phelps

94. “I want to change the sport of swimming. I want people to talk about it, think about it, and look forward to seeing it. I want them to want to jump in and do it. That’s my goal.” After.”

— Michael Phelps

95. “But a hero should be somebody who can lift up other people with his courage and dedication.”

— Michael Phelps

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

— Michael Phelps

97. “I’m doing this for me. If I don’t become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that’s your own opinion. I’m doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming.”

— Michael Phelps

98. “In some sports, you can just get by on a lot of natural talent. In swimming, it helps to be long and lean, but you can’t be good at it without putting in the work. There is a direct connection between what you put into it and what you get out of it.”

— Michael Phelps