Phelps Sports Quotes & Sayings

A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego. — Digger Phelps

Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally — Michael Phelps

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite. — Sri Chinmoy

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years. — Johnny Weir

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking ... You need to clear your brain. — Ildar Abdrazakov

I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way. — Michael Phelps

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
— Denis Waitley

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

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

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. If you have big ears or trouble focusing, but you work harder than the guy in the lane next to you, you'll beat him." In — Michael Phelps

I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything. — Michael Phelps

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked. — Michael Phelps

You can't put a limit anything. — Michael Phelps

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

I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can ... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ... whichever song really gets me going that night — Michael Phelps

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic. — Laura Kelly

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

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

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings. — Thomas Jefferson

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

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening. — Michael Phelps

My father said it was a delightfully odd - and dangerously self-destructive - quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories. — Jasper Fforde

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me — Michael Phelps

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

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. — Michael Phelps

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up — Michael Phelps

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. — Michael Phelps

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much. — Benjamin Franklin

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over. — Will Rogers

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

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30. — Gail Sheehy

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job. — Kristen Schaal

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens. — Michael Phelps