"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home."

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"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home."

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

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Explore more quotes by Michael Phelps

"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy."

Friendship

"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it."

Time

"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now."

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"I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming."

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"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."

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"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

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"My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'"

People

"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."

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"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."

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"Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz."

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