Ryan Lochte Quotes

• 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.

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

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• 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?’

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• 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.

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• I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

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

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• 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.

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• I’m going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts – just speed.

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• I hate to lose. I like winning.

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

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

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• It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

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

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• I wasn’t really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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Ryan Lochte (27)

Birth:	3rd August, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Swimmer

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Ryan Steven Lochte is an American international swimmer and an eleven-time Olympic medalist. His seven individual Olympic medals rank as second all-time in men's swimming. As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

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