Ryan Lochte quotes:

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.

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?'

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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.

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I took my weight training to a new level.

I want to get to know a woman before I take them out on a date or anything like that.

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

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

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.

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

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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.

Stay motivated, set goals, have fun

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

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.'

Alec Baldwin is so funny.

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

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

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

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.

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.

If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.

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.

All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation.

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

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.

For me, being Ryan Lochte is fun.

For those who are understood no need to explain

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

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

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

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.

I hate to lose. I like winning.

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

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

I love swimming because racing.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

I think that is why I do so many different things with the hair, the grills, the crazy shoes.It's just my personality coming out there.

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

If you're a man at night, you've got to be a man in the morning.

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

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.

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

I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend "? big mistake. Now I'm single, so London should be really good. I'm excited.

Pain is temporarily, but pride last forever

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

That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

The key to the Lochte haircut is being fresh and looking up-to-date.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?