Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I w…

Michael Phelps
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Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race. ✨ Michael Phelps (2016). Beneath the Surface: My Story, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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