“If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.”
"I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it."
- Michael Phelps
Belief
"I’ve been to the darkest places, but I’ve also been to the brightest places."
- Michael Phelps
Hope
"I can only control my performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day."
- Michael Phelps
Self-awareness
"I'm doing this for me. If I don't become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that's your own opinion. I'm doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming."
- Michael Phelps
Self-awareness
"In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
- Michael Phelps
Integrity
"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
- Harry Golden
Hard Work
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."
- Michael Larsen
Hard Work
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work