Ryan Lochte famous quotes

If you’re a man at night, you’ve got to be a man in the morning.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Morning #Men #Night

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?'
-- Ryan Lochte

#Senior #Dad #School

I love swimming because racing.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Swimming #Racing

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Pain #Tolerance #Endurance

I hate to lose. I like winning.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Hate #Winning #I Hate

Stay motivated, set goals, have fun
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fun #Goal #Motivated

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Black #Attention #Lines

I've hung out with Jay-Z a couple of times, and he was awesome.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Couple #Hung

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fashion #Swimming #Focus

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Basketball #Sports #Growing Up

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.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fashion #Swimming #Design

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Olympics #Way #Living My Life

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Ankles #Olympics #Break

In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fun #Live Life #Live Life To The Fullest

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Girl #Fighting #Dark

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Summer #Hard Work #Waiting

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

#Air #Water #Suits

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.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Moving #Focus #Training

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Couple #Past #Ideas

The whole Kardashian family, they have a bunch of energy.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Energy #Bunch

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

#Girl #Laughing #Make Me Laugh

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Winning #Race #Trying

I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fashion #Giving #Different

I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Sports #Passion #Swimming

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

#Thinking #Olympics #Outcomes

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.
-- Ryan Lochte

#President #Top Hats #My Favorite

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Race #Racing #Way

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Weekend #Thinking #Swim

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Eye #Long #Trying

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Thinking #Might #Should

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.'
-- Ryan Lochte

#Jealous #Want #Way

I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Believe #Soul #Together

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

#Moving #Trials #Olympics

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

#Ties #Olympics #Suits

You know, you pick and choose your battles.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Battle

Alec Baldwin is so funny.
-- Ryan Lochte

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Mom #Listening #Grew Up

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Big Families #Want #Grew Up

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Athlete #Player #Good Athlete

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Style #Trying #Dresses

Going out to look for a date, I don't have to do that. They come to me.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Going Out #Looks

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

#Training #Endurance #Backgrounds

I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Girl #Sexy #Thinking

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Mean #Years #Work Out

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Potato Chips #Potatoes #Eating

Of course I have bad hair days; I’m human.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Hair #Bad Hair Day #Humans

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Swimming #Looks #Needs

I took my weight training to a new level.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Training #Weight #Levels

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fun #Swimming #Dancing

Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Sports #Fashion #Swimming

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Flow #Aggravated #Whatever Happens Happens

Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.
-- Ryan Lochte

#People #Bigs

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

#Focus #Littles #Little Things

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Thinking #Rushing #Water

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Kids #Work Out #Trying

Have fun, because that's what life is all about.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fun #Athlete #Having Fun

For me, being Ryan Lochte is fun.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Fun

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.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Rocks #Car #Trying

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Crazy #People #Want

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?
-- Ryan Lochte

#Swimming #Nba #Nfl

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.'
-- Ryan Lochte

#Kids #Names #Superstar

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Swimming #Able #Calories

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Growing Up #Thinking #Black

I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Swimming #Thinking #Mtv

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.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Mom #Gold #Would Be

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Growing Up #Mcdonalds #Soda

It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's ‘jee-ah.’ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that ‘J.’ And then the ‘A-H’ kinda just flows.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Flow #Want #Boring

For those who are understood no need to explain
-- Ryan Lochte

#Needs #Understood

Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!
-- Ryan Lochte

#Sometimes

Pain is temporarily, but pride last forever
-- Ryan Lochte

#Pain #Pride #Forever

Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah
-- Ryan Lochte

#Stars #Moon #Cuz

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Athlete #Winning #Swimmer

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Girlfriend #Mistake #Olympics

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Jumping #Bananas #Pops