Ryan Lochte Quotes

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Ryan Lochte

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 3, 1984

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

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My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

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I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

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I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

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Of course I have bad hair days; I'm human.

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I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

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I took my weight training to a new level.

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No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

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I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

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You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

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I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

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When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'

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My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.

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I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

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I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

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I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

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My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

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Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.

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The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

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I hate to lose. I like winning.

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