Where these words come from
- Lots of sources credit Michael Phelps with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Reported quote from 2008 Olympic Games press coverage (per Wikiquote's sourced section). No primary archive found; widely and consistently attributed to Phelps.
- 2008 · reported during the 2008 Olympic Games
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