Michael Phelps – No Limits – The Will to Succeed
“When I’m focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I’m gonna get there.”
Michael Phelps is one of the greatest competitors the world has ever seen. From teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens, he is now — after the Beijing Games — a living Olympic legend. With an unprecedented eight gold medals and world-record times in seven events, his performance at the 2008 Games set a new standard for success. He ranks among the most elite athletes in the world, and is both an inspiration and a role model to millions
Flung into the real world when his rich benefactor dies, Chance is helped on his life journey by Elizabeth Eve, the young, beautiful, resourceful wife of a dying Wall Street mogul. Accidentally launched into a world of sex, money, power - and national television - he becomes a media superstar, a household name, the man of the hour - and, who knows, perhaps the next President of the United States of America.
TIME Magazine October 29, 2007 Vol. 170 No. 18 • COVER: The Power of Birth Order - Parents insist that how kids turn out depends on when they were born. More and more, science agrees • WORLD: America's Other Army - A furor over the killing of 17 Iraqis by Blackwater contractors puts the spotlight on the little-examined world of private security companies. Who are these guns for hire, and who pays when they mess up?
• God vs. Science - We revere faith and scientific progress, hunger for miracles and for MRIs. But are the worldviews compatible? TIME convenes a debate • SCIENCE: Oceans of Nothing - A study says overfishing will soon destroy the seafood supply • HEALTH: When Cells Stop Working - Children keep dying from mysterious illnesses that have been traced to tiny structures called mitochondria • WORLD: Way Too Much Monkey Business - India declares war on an unwanted urban dweller. The methods may surprise you • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT (Interview)
A politician survives an attempted assassination in Stockholm, and secret agent Monika Lundgren is instructed to find the people responsible. As she races across the world, through Finland, England, South Africa and Mozambique, she encounters a strange football team, a rock musician and a madman with dreams of world power.
