Ryan Lochte
I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Birthday
My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Design
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.
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.
You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.
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.
I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.
Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.
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.
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 going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.
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.
I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.
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.
I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.
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 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 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.
I hate to lose. I like winning.
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.
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.
I took my weight training to a new level.
If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.
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.
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
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.
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.
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.
You know, you pick and choose your battles.
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.
I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
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.
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.
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.
You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.
I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.
In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.
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.
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.
I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.