“Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.”
"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
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition