Michael Phelps, when asked about the race he hated losing the most, the 200m butterfly.

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“When I was in the warm-down pool, and I said to Bob,” meaning Bob Bowman, the coach who has been been there with him since he was 11, “I said, ‘I have looked up to Michael Jordan my whole life because he has done something nobody else has ever done and he is the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. “And I said, ‘You know what? We have been able to become the greatest — I’ve been able to become the best swimmer of all time. I said, ‘We got here together.’ I thanked him. It was funny. 

“When I got out of the pool, he was, like, ‘That’s not fair.’  “I said, ‘What’s not fair about it?’ “He goes, ‘You were in the pool.’  “I was, like, ‘Yeah, my tears could hide behind my goggles.’ I was, like, ‘Yours are streaming down your face.’ 

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cutest reaction to winning a gold goes to ~ chad le clos

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“Silver was the best I could do here. I had nothing left mentally. At the end of the match I played with tears in my eyes. I’m actually very proud and happy. Maybe one day I will look back at this and think, ‘damn, I was so close to a gold medal,’ but at the moment I don’t feel like that. It almost feels like a gold medal for me, even though it’s just silver.”

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“I remember watching Michael on television in Athens when I was a kid, and to have the chance to race against him and know him is hard to believe. He has done amazing things in the sport, and he is a legend.” Chad Le Clos on Michael Phelps

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