Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

We need to make seeing a therapist more accessible; we've got to crack down on this and allow people the opportunity to seek help. It's going to be a game-changer. I would love people to become more vulnerable and reach out and ask for help. I would never want somebody to go through the feelings I had, almost exactly three years ago, of not wanting to be alive. That's a scary thing, and to think of where I am today compared to that - that's way bigger than winning a gold medal.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.