Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps
Michael Fred Phelps II is an American competition swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals in three Olympiads. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events, and Olympic medals in individual events for a male. In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record away from fellow American swimmer Mark Spitzfor the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth30 June 1985
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
The first 100-yards felt real good and I knew I had a good pace going. It feels good hearing the crowd and really gets you going. Just want to thank them for all the help.
That's the most pain I've ever been in after a 200. It's exhaustion more than anything.
The things I am doing right now I have dreamt about my whole life,
I'm satisfied in a way because it was an eye-opener,
That's an indication I'm sort of starting to fade.
It's great for us coming off an Olympics to have a team like this.
I got the stamina. I can close.
I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.
I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps
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.
Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.
I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.
I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.
For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.