They could help to make
real my biggest dream: to elevate swimming's place in the
American sports landscape, and to make it an every-year sport instead of a
once-every-four-years sport. I never set out to be the second Mark Spitz.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
extract of Michael Phelps' autobiography
The notion of eight golds was always a means to an end. It was never about
chasing fame or fortune or celebrity. If I could go one better than the great
Mark Spitz and the seven golds he won at the Munich Olympics in 1972, those
eight medals might do what nothing else could.
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