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Retired Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps talks about his retirement from swimming, and what’s next for his career.
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Is lose most nerve racking them ever done.
-- to shine through.
It -- on some of small things.
And hopefully give me a couple good shots in there relax some and that's more -- itself structural and it's just those can be Evelyn yell and scream in -- -- That's hard to imagine Michael Phelps -- -- But was the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time -- -- metals being afraid of anything but golf elder team so -- now -- from swimming and has taken on a new challenge.
-- -- And here is Michael Phelps everybody at best to use that sounds insane that -- high -- Let's share and.
-- it doesn't -- -- thing because it when I was out there at the Ryder Cup I literally.
Thank my hands -- shaking like I could not put -- T in the ground he had to drive where like anything off.
The T about because I was so nervous right.
I was like -- out that there -- people lined up the fair as the -- drill one of these people that this is not going to be -- I think about the unlike.
A public course.
First is that volatility wanted to when he played golf about the automobile from if you're one of the first shot and a good in the -- 'cause nobody it and it much obviously the -- and -- was that's the only way on our Q what ever relate to Michael -- -- Yeah.
-- -- -- Yeah yeah did the first shot as always the most important to the pressure off the why -- you gives it its interest in -- right -- -- in the money and we've been.
You're you don't swimming more obvious you made a ton of money doing it because the sponsors you do a show like this some Golf Channel -- -- fun to watch to kind of keep -- Nieminen headlines.
I'll -- this is you know I actually always wanted to go off in Hawaii there's a time high school where I wanted to quit swimming -- -- -- high school Lothian but.
My mother.
Had help me sort of think about everything in and rethink my decision.
Men and -- they'll let me -- whatever I want to do.
But I decided to stick with the sport of swimming where couple more years and -- and I'm done.
I -- off.
You know it's it's.
I think one thing that's cool about the sport is you can travel all over the world and play different -- -- different golf courses everywhere and and there the you'll never find one that's exactly the same as the other I think that some base is really interesting to me and I like getting out there -- for a couple hours and and just relax and.
Yeah golf business more from big little Lotta time on their hands -- -- point eight with all the money made from endorsements and still make every year.
Lebanese army sponsorship counts I'm you know there there's still things that I wanna do not -- that.
And the other still things in the sport of some of -- -- -- even though I'm not doing and I can competitive level.
I still -- -- the sport grow in something that that I've said from day one and and -- I'm not gonna give up until I feel like it's reached.
Hello my where I want my god I'd like yes hey that's a word to the point now it's it's a word get the brainstorm -- -- -- the sport has changed so much in twelve years that.
It's it's where do we go from here.
So you know I'm I'm still into -- -- following the guys net how how they're so main.
Guys and girls off from all over the world and seeing what's gonna happen and then obviously -- And enough to -- gonna change her it's gonna go back to build suit and right so that you never make it come back have been completely ruled that out -- -- you're done no matter how much time.
The message Egypt think about that after no there's I mean I'm sure there are times right do you miss the sport -- -- being back inadvertent.
You know at this point I -- been able to accomplish everything I have ever wanted to in the sport and there's no need for -- to come back and again and and no I don't wanna come back in and do that's -- and -- that bad and and I was so wanted to hang up my suit and said never had a one -- and if I can say that than.
Doesn't matter to him and us -- Hank Haney -- -- Koch for.
She didn't from -- respect.
The the the first Phillips shows I was so frustrated because it.
Kept him literally just kept putting them all down hit hit another one down hit another and out ahead I was like -- -- -- I don't -- -- any more -- this -- -- This sucks is that -- do this anymore right.
And I guess we we finally turned and then we started really getting along you know after the new year.
You know we spent.
And probably week week and a half the other you know around Christmas in the near an end.
You know working on things and and right then that this is something -- and and I have the bug and it's it's in -- the gulf bug it's something that's.
Hard to get away and then I want to improve idea I wanna become a better golfer I wanna be able to compute my friends and they're gonna hopefully meet them and where that one day it's.
I've broken ninety's okay and tell you exactly what about the -- broad manually -- it.
I had.
53 -- so.
It's it's the small things and then you know I've I've been able to overcome kind of the -- -- is getting better but I just have to learn on where to place that pro side and he'll also play against Colin Thompson -- -- -- -- Are they didn't see you and the -- wonder what if -- -- Olympic star's -- when we'll see them again but this is kind of an interest acquitted don't know I -- an advantage back in the -- -- that they kept playing of his regular golf simulate export.
Not this time around -- -- effective FX eight years we'll get back.
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