My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.
Ryan Lochte
I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.
I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.
I'm at a point where I'm ready to settle down. Every girl I meet, though, something wrong happens, and I end up getting hurt.
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.
I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
I took my weight training to a new level.
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.
I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.
You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.
No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I do, no matter what event I'm at, I always find a way to train. It's just something that I love to do.
A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.
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.
You know, you pick and choose your battles.
I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.
I hate to lose. I like winning.
If I just swam all day, I'd lose it. That's why I do so many other activities. It keeps me sane.
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.
In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.
My whole family swims! You can pretty much say chlorine runs in our veins.
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.'
The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?
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.
Going out to look for a date, I don't have to do that. They come to me.
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.
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.
My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.
Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.
I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.
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.
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
There's people out there that are like, 'Oh my God, I want to have your kid. I want to marry you.' People that I've never even met. That's sweet. It's funny.
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.
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.
I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.
I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.
I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.
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?'
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.
I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.
I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
It felt good to actually have a decent swim.
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.
I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.
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.
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.
I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.
