Where Are Those 8 Gold Medals? 菲爾普斯

Michael Phelps reflects on his record-breaking Olympics.

Our ESPN colleague Jerry Michele sat down with Phelps and calls him "serene", like a man who achieved everything he'd hoped to , which of course is exactly what he did. Here are some of their conversation/.

You think separates the people who are merely gifted from those like you who in this instance won?

You know for me when I watch/ all the sport, you know when I watch, you know, when I watch Tiger, when I watch Federer and I watch Nadal, the best athletes can compete under any circumstances. And you know, no matter what it is, no matter what the pressure, you can always overcome anything that is put in your way，you know when Jordan was sick, he still put up 60 points.

When you won the 100 butterfly by one, one hundredth of a second, what were you thinking about the role of fame, the role of luck?

After the race, Crack said to me, he goes, you have that angels with you or something, he goes, I have no idea what it is(he goes). And you know I feel that, yeah, you know that there has to be luck in it, there has to be some luck involved, that you know everything has been pretty much perfect, you know for me to be able to do what I just did.

You got eight gold medals now, where are they?

It's a great question. I saw them earlier, I think my agent has them, I put them all on this morning, it looked pretty cool, it was a pretty neat feeling.

You put them on just to see them or with a photo.

Just to see them.

You're 23; you've achieved everything you wanted to achieve, what are your goals now?

I wanna change sport to something. I look up to Michael Jordan, what he did in sport of basketball, how he completely changed it, this sport has changed my life in so many ways and you know, I just wanna other people to be able to be a part of that.

菲爾普斯就他在奧運會上打破的記錄做出回應。

我們ESPN的同事Jerry Michele現在正和菲爾普斯坐在一起，說他很“平靜” ，就像一個得到了一切他想要的東西的人一樣，當然，他確實做到了。下面是他們兩個之間的對話。

很多人像你一樣有天賦，但是你卻贏了，你覺得你們之間的差別是什么呢？

你知道，對我來說，當我觀看比賽的時候，當我看Tiger, Federer 和Nadal參加比賽的時候，我發現，最好的運動員在任何情況下都能參加比賽。你知道，無論是什么，無論是多大的壓力，你都能克服前進路上的一切困難。你知道，喬丹生病的時候參加比賽仍然能投得60分。

當你以超過第二名0.01秒的成績贏得100米蝶泳的時候，你怎樣認為名聲的作用，運氣的作用？

比賽之后，Crack過來對我說“你有天使相助”之類的話。我不知道他指的是什么。你知道，我確實感覺到，肯定是運氣，肯定含有運氣的成分在里面。你知道所有的一切都非常完美，能夠做到我想做的。

你獲得了8枚金牌，現在在哪里呢？

這個問題很好。我之前看見過，我想我的經理人現在保管著，今天早上我戴上的。看上去非常酷，非常整潔的感覺。

你戴上他們只是為了看到他們或者為了拍照？

只是為了看一下。

現在你23歲了，你已經獲得了你想要的一切。今后你的目標是什么呢？

我想把運動改變成更有意義的事情。我一直像喬丹看齊，他在籃球運動中所做的事情徹底改變了這項運動。這項運動也在很多方面改變了我的生活。我希望其他人也可以是這項運動的一部分。