Playboy? I'm Just a Mummy's Boy Really ; a Year After Making History in Athens, the World's Greatest Swimmer Tells How a Drink-Driving Charge Turned Him Into a Better Person...

Daily Mail (June 08, 2005)

Author: Cathy Wood

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MICHAEL PHELPS, the world's greatest swimmer, knows every second counts if you want to win.

A second is also about the same amount of time it took the American teenager to realise that a momentary lapse of judgment could have cost him his career.

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Playboy? I'm Just a Mummy's Boy Really ; a Year After Making History in Athens, the World's Greatest Swimmer Tells How a Drink-Driving Charge Turned Him Into a Better Person...

That understanding has made the 19-year-old 'a better person. It's made me really realise that with a blink of an eye things can turn and your dreams can die'.

Phelps' personal awakening came last November - three months after he had won six golds a...

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