Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible. — Michael Phelps · Smartyfair

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Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible. — Michael Phelps · Smartyfair

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

Michael Phelps1985 · athlete · 1900s-2000s USAMichael Phelps is an American swimmer widely regarded as the most decorated Olympian of all time, having won twenty-eight Olympic medals across four Olympic Games, including twenty-three golds.1 quote

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Make your dream as big as you can. Then go chase it.

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What turned up: Reported quote from 2008 Olympic Games press coverage (per Wikiquote's sourced section). No primary archive found; widely and consistently attributed to Phelps.
Occasion: 2008 · reported during the 2008 Olympic Games
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Sourced section, dated 16 August 2008

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