Michael Phelps Quotes

“I think goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”

“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

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

“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than swimming.”

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

“When I feel tired, I just think about how great I will feel once I finally reach my goal.”

“Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.”

“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.”

“Success is about commitment. The moment you commit yourself is when the magic begins to happen.”

“One of the things that's so difficult to understand is that you can always push harder than you think you can.”

“I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did everything I could and I was successful.”

“I like to think of myself as a normal person, who simply has a passion, has a goal and a dream.”

“I hate to lose more than I enjoy winning.”

“There's no blueprint on how to win eight gold medals. There's no blueprint on how to break 39 world records. There's no blueprint on how to win 23 Olympic gold medals. The only thing you can do is trial and error.”

“For this to happen, everything had to fall into perfect place. If we had to do this again, I don't know if it would happen exactly the way we wanted it to.”

“It's okay to not be okay, and you're not alone. Those two things I think can just go together. Just in a difficult time, it's something to just simplify it, take a step back, take a breath and relax.”

“Actions speak louder than words. That's one of my all-time favorite hands down quotes because it's true. You can say whatever you want, but if your actions don't back up those words, then all it is is just a bold-faced lie.”

“When you get up onto the block, don't be nervous. Don't be scared. Because you've done all the work. Everything I did throughout my career — it's not rocket science. It was work.”

“I feel like I've taken more strokes in the swimming pool than I've taken steps on land. So it makes it challenging when you have a freight train trying to come down in the middle of the street with no tracks on it.”

“You never ever want to say that he's not going to do something. You never want to be critical of Michael, because he will stick it so far up you, it's not funny. Do that to Michael and it'll improve his performance by about 400 percent.”