It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different...

Compete like you cannot fail.

They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.

There could be a chance [of playing at the Olympics] if he’s one of the best 23 players.

They were the tabloid Olympics.

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

I think they should combine the Summer and Winter Olympics and call it the Fall Olympics. They could host it in the spring, when all the lovers will flock to see me preform live for...

I Have a Dream.”24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first...

Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel...

but does it have a winning taste? I’d hardly call silver a champion flavor. No, I’ll stick to my red wine.

Act like a champion, and then become one.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.

I’m not even looking to the Olympics right now. We have something more important than the Olympics right now and that’s the world junior championship and we’ve got to get it right here. We’re going...

The Ryder Cup, with the world’s premier golfers putting it all on the line for national pride, is essentially the Olympics of golf. In our 15 years of broadcasting the event, we have been blessed...

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.

If swimming in gold were a sport, I’d be the Michael Phelps, and my winning would lead to more winning, as my gold made more gold.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

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.

With the Turin Olympics and the World Cup coming, everyone knows that televisions are being sold by the truckload … Windows (new operating system) Vista will debut in the later part of the year, so...

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.