162 Quotes by Ryan Lochte

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.

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

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

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?’

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.

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

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’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.

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.