"Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home." ― Michael Phelps Topic(s): Fitness More From Michael Phelps "I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world." "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." "I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along." More In Fitness "I have run two Olympic ‘A’ standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics."― Oscar Pistorius "Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."― E. T. Bell "At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama’s fitness than his willingness: Why doesn’t he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?"― Ron Fournier