Karate, I get a real kick out of it. I would get a kick out of coffee, but I’ve got better ways of stirring, like renting Michael Phelps’ 400 IM time.

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.

I am not looking to the Olympics right now. I have something much more important on Dec. 30 and that is the world junior championship. We have to get it right here.

The Olympics will now be opened to an entirely new part of the world where one-fifth of the world’s population can experience the world’s greatest event for the first time,

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

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If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal. I would pour you a large glass of Michael Phelps, but I don’t have that much water.

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

I won eight gold medals that day. I was like Michael Phelps, except I was the only person competing in all those events. Still, I count the number of golds, not the number of competitors.

If not now, when?

Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

If you’re a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food.

The sprint is like life … blink and you miss it.

If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone’s pants. But if you win an Olympic gold...

Don’t drown.” At least there should be. I may have just Michael Phelpsed myself, but it’s all gold.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

See it first in your mind, then become it.

I want to meddle with an Olympic medal made of silver metal. I want to alchemize it into gold, and use a mixture of science and mysticism to transform losing into winning.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.

I’ve never been cocky. Even right now I don’t like to talk about the Olympics.

Someone who doesn’t make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn’t act...

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

I know I’m in the finals and that’s good. It’s going to be fun no matter where I end up. It’s great saying I made it to the Olympics.

There was very little that wasn’t on the table to get their vote, … It’s wrong. It’s called ethics. Votes were for sale… It muddies the name of the Olympics.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don’t get the Olympics.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

We definitely saw the parallels between girls working in a man’s world. And the idea of making the Olympics appeal to a younger generation.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

My eyes are bronze, my hair is turning silver, and my heart is gold. Oh, and my love for you belongs in the Olympics, because it’s Special.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

I treated the last Olympics as a big international event. This time I want to treat it as a place to express myself. I want to show what I have, to entertain rather than just...

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

Olympics is everyone’s dream.

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...

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

People tell me I have a winning smile, but it’s just not true. My grin took silver at last year’s Facial Expression Olympics.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

I feel I’m really focused on the Olympics. [The selection process] is over and I’m looking [toward the] next competition.

Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.