Michael Phelps Quotes

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

I fight because I want to not because I have to.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.