"I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming." ― Michael Phelps Topic(s): Change More From Michael Phelps "My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety." "I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, ‘Well, what do I do? What’s best for me?’ I need to look into options for the future." "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." More In Change "I love change, I need it."― Rod Stewart "One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong."― Dean Koontz "That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society."― Charles Dickens