Ryan Lochte

Athlete

1984-08-03

Quotes by Ryan Lochte

• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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 need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.

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• My whole family swims! You can pretty much say chlorine runs in our veins.

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• 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.

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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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