Michael Phelps

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

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.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.